Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

On one hand you have spheroid dwarf galaxies, spiral dwarf galaxies and elliptical dwarf galaxies, and on the other you have ...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have detected a new ultra-faint ...

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...

ESA's Euclid space telescope has been providing valuable data from the depths of space for almost two years. With its help, ...

Sometimes life’s struggles are easier to laugh at when you see them happening to animals—and that’s exactly what Irregular ...

Five new portraits of galaxies located between 4 million to 30 million light-years from Earth could help astronomers unlock the secrets of cosmic evolution.

The European Space Agency ESA today published new data from its Euclid space telescope. These used for a galactic census ...

Image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253, located at a distance of about 11 million light years from us, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian telescope managed by the Italian ...

spiral dwarf galaxies and elliptical dwarf galaxies, and on the other you have irregular dwarf galaxies. The latter are chaotic galaxies that lack a distinct shape, and are low in elements heavier ...

Recently, a team of astronomers at the University of Innsbruck, including researchers Francine Marleau and Tim Schrabback, ...