That's because dwarf galaxies this small should have been destroyed in the hotter and denser conditions of the early universe. Yet somehow, this tiny galaxy survived without being fried.

A flash of powerful X-ray light coming from a nova explosion on a white dwarf star has caught the attention of astronomers using the Chinese–European Einstein Probe. This nova is especially ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, an image of which the James Webb Telescope recently captured in ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new dwarf galaxy, Pegasus VII, has been discovered in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy, approximately 2.4 million light years away. It is the faintest known ...

Chinese astronomers have analyzed the data from ... Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are binary star systems consisting of a white dwarf primary accreting matter from a normal star companion.