Nov 21, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational group of astronomers led by Dr Michael Koss of ETH Zurich has discovered an exotic object in a galaxy some 90 million light-years away. The...

Jul 11, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using a new telescope called the Dragonfly Telephoto Array have discovered seven new dwarf galaxies the field of a nearby spiral galaxy known...

Jun 19, 2014 by News Staff

Starbursts in dwarf galaxies played a bigger role than expected in the early Universe, according to new data from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), onboard...

Jun 11, 2014 by News Staff

According to a study led by Dr Marcel Pawlowski of Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, dwarf galaxies that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda...

Jun 3, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers led Dr Guillem Anglada-Escude from Queen Mary University of London, UK, have announced the discovery of two exoplanets circling a very old...

Oct 21, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered what they say is the most distant gravitational lens yet. This image shows the quadruple...

Sep 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based optical telescopes have discovered what they say is the...

Aug 15, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. astronomer using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a massive cloud of hot gas likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy...

Jun 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to the findings of a study published online in the Astrophysical Journal, a dwarf galaxy named Segue 2 is the least massive galaxy in the known...

Jul 10, 2012 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. Astronomers...