Two colliding galaxies have been found to be reorganizing their dwarf satellites, potentially solving a major conundrum ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

Astronomers identified what they believed was a lone brown dwarf orbiting a bright single star. Then they looked more closely.

A team of astronomers led by Dr. Phil Massey of Lowell Observatory has taken the sharpest look yet at one of the heaviest ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until now, it was considered a dwarf galaxy, thought to consist mainly of dark ...

NASA has found another big cosmic structure orbiting a red dwarf - and this one allows the scientists to study due to the current temperature inside.

A study has found evidence suggesting that Ursa Major III is actually a compact star cluster containing a black hole core.

The "exciting" discovery of an extremely rare quadruple star system could significantly advance our understanding of brown dwarfs, astronomers say. These mysterious objects are too big to be ...

14. The Sun emits a continuous stream of plasma called the solar wind. On Earth, the most visible effect of the solar wind is ...