Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

NGC 300 (also known as Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel galaxy) is a dwarf spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor, about six million light years away. It has an estimated size of about ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...

That's why a manual, by-eye search by University of Arizona astronomer David Sand was needed to discover three faint and ultra-faint dwarf galaxies located in the direction of the spiral galaxy ...

Astronomers discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, frozen for 13 billion years, offering rare insights into early cosmic ...

The European satellite, launched in 2013, has exhausted its gas reserves and is preparing to return to a stable orbit before being 'passivated.' But while the data collection that revolutionized ...