Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare group of five 'dwarf' galaxies that are 'interacting with each other' about 117 ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare group of five 'dwarf' galaxies that are 'interacting with each other' about 117 million light years away from Earth Dwarf galaxies contain a few ...

Researchers identified 378 satellite galaxies around their host systems, an accomplishment requiring meticulous analytical techniques to differentiate these objects from a dense background noise. The ...

Study co-author Erica Nelson remarked: 'Why on Earth do these galaxies have so much more dust than all the other galaxies? Got me.' The researchers considered data from the vast array of better ...

Other galaxies discovered to date from a similar time period have been much more massive, according to a statement from NASA. "I didn’t think it would be possible to resolve a galaxy that ...

Firefly Sparkle is among the earliest galaxies humans have observed, which formed merely some 600 million years after the Big ...

unlike most other galaxies, whose satellites were still active stellar factories. It all raises an intriguing question: why is our galactic home different? "To me, the frontier is figuring out ...

A spiral galaxy with a disk that spans more than 100,000 light-years, it sits within a neighborhood called the Local Group, which includes more than 50 other galaxies. Some of the neighborhood's ...