The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere, is being reshaped by a ...

Hubble has turned its sharp gaze on a compact, intensely blue dwarf galaxy about 13 million light years away, revealing a crowded nursery where massive stars are being forged at a furious pace. The ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the hundreds of billions of galaxies that stretch across the known universe, even the smallest members can reveal secrets ...

A new study of diffuse dwarf galaxies is challenging the prevailing galaxy formation model within the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) framework, leading to a proposed new model of dark matter. Under ...

A Dartmouth-led survey identified more than 300 candidate satellite galaxies orbiting low-mass star systems known as dwarf galaxies. Pictured are possible satellites around the dwarf galaxy ESO486-G21 ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the most primitive stars in terms of chemical composition — a ...

A Dartmouth-led survey identified more than 300 candidate satellite galaxies orbiting low-mass star systems known as dwarf galaxies. Pictured are possible satellites around the dwarf galaxy ESO486-G21 ...