The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy of our own Milky Way, harbors a heretofore unconfirmed supermassive black ...

Enhanced star formation rates in our galaxy during the past 2–4 Gyr is known from survey data, and this is likely linked to Sagittarius dwarf galaxy’s passage. Here, authors show an increase ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered 36 new dwarf galaxies around Andromeda and ongoing star formation within them, ...

"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they ...

DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...

Scientists believe one of the smallest reptiles currently scurrying across the planet is the Virgin Island dwarf sphaero. Also known as the Virgin Gorda least gecko and Virgin Islands dwarf gecko, the ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests. Until now ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among both men and women. Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are the two main types of lung cancer. Most lung ...

Utilizing the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), this discovery enhances our understanding of the dynamics between dwarf galaxy evolution and black hole growth. It can also open up vast ...

The new Guinness World Record holder for the smallest hand-made sculpture is so miniscule that you can’t even see it with the naked eye. Completed late last year and confirmed this week in a ...