Astronomers finally spotted a previously 'invisible' object near our solar system when they realized it was actually glowing ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly observed star clusters merging at the cores of dwarf galaxies—a process long ...

Comic book nerds have debated and argued for decades over which of these DC and Marvel heroes have a chance at winning ...

In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has ...

The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known affectionately as the Pillars of Creation.

A planet in a perpendicular orbit around 2 brown dwarfs. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found an ...

Above the great sheath of stars that defines the ship’s keel is a ragged circle of stars. That’s Vela the Sails, though there ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have found compelling evidence of a dark matter-deficient dwarf galaxy, FCC 224. This ultra-diffuse galaxy is located on the ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory at Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island have found compelling evidence of a dark matter-deficient dwarf galaxy, FCC 224. This ultra-diffuse galaxy is located on the ...

Thanks to the proximity of the SMC to our own galaxy, Tachihara and his colleagues were able to identify and track around 700 massive stars in the dwarf galaxy. These stars, with over eight times ...

Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull ...