A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object. It’s a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud that astronomers consider a relic or remnant of early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory just dropped a new cache of photographs that capture the stunning beauty of different types of ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient progenitors of galaxies like ours were small galaxies similar to modern-day ...

Astronomers from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and elsewhere report the discovery of a new isolated early-type dwarf galaxy, which appears to have run away from the group environment. The ...

Early-type galaxies, encompassing both elliptical and lenticular systems, are characterised by smooth stellar light distributions and a predominance of random over ordered motions. Stellar kinematics ...

Early-type galaxies, encompassing ellipticals and lenticulars, are characterised by smooth stellar light distributions, predominantly old and metal-rich stellar populations, and negligible ongoing ...