A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

Discover how hibernating lemurs turn back time on a molecular level, helping scientists better understand cellular aging.

Irises put on a show in Southern gardens in a rainbow of colors. Learn when different types of irises—Dwarf, Dutch, and ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

Astronomers from Poland and Germany have performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a blue variable object ...

A team of astronomers recently uncovered an exceptionally small and faint dwarf galaxy located approximately 3 million ...

For the first time, we have visual confirmation of a white dwarf/red dwarf system responsible for puzzling intermittent radio ...

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ...

"It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice." Dwarf galaxies themselves are nothing new to scientists. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is orbited by ...