Amateur astronomers part of NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project identified CWISE J1249, a fast-moving object exiting the Milky Way, us...

Researchers have recently discovered dark galaxies, which are galaxies devoid of visible stars but filled with hydrogen gas. These galaxies...

Washington, Jan 11 (IANS) Astronomers are in the process of building a small space telescope to explore the flares and sunspots of small ne...

London, Jan 10 (IANS) Scientists have found evidence that supermassive black holes prevent formation of stars in some smaller galaxies, in ...

New York, Oct 31 (IANS) The outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions, s...

15 radio bursts coming from a dwarf galaxy about 3 million light years away from earth have been detected by Breakthrough Listen, a global ...

London, July 6 (IANS) Our galaxy could have 100 billion brown dwarfs or more, according to a new research by an international team of astro...

London, March 25 (IANS) A record breaking brown dwarf -- a star too small for nuclear fusion -- with the purest composition and the highest...

Washington, Jan 5 (IANS) In a first, astronomers, including one of Indian-origin, have traced the source of a mysterious radio signal to a ...

These star forming episodes may last for several billions of years, depending on the mass, orbit and concentration of the dark satellite, r...

An international team of scientists has discovered a new method that may help in detecting dwarf galaxies dominated by dark matter.

The exact source of this high-energy light is uncertain at this point but it just might be a signal of dark matter lurking at the galaxy's ...

Astronomers using NASA's X-ray Observatory have identified the smallest super-massive black hole ever detected in the centre of a galaxy.

"It brings us a step closer to solving the type Ia puzzle," Dr Rubina Kotak, from the Astrophysics Centre at Queen's University Belfast, sa...

The others could be either dwarf galaxies or globular clusters - objects with similar visible properties to dwarf galaxies, but not held to...

US708 is believed to have once been part of a double-star solar system, which also included a massive white dwarf star.

Astronomers led by an Indian-origin scientist discovered a monster black hole lurking inside one of the tiniest and densest galaxies ever k...