Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It's part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs.

Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning view of the Large Magellanic Cloud, revealing swirling gas and dust in vibrant ...

By tracking the motion of these stars, they could see that this dwarf galaxy is being ripped apart. This is almost certainly due, at least in part, to the gravitational pull of our own Milky Way.

Dwarf galaxy nuclei contain hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of stars, making them the densest stellar clusters in the known universe — and this research seems to confirm that such ...

A Dartmouth-led study identifies potentially more that 300 small galaxies orbiting low-mass systems known as dwarf ...

Hubble helps explore the wreckage of a supernova star explosion in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way (image) Scientists spot high-speed galaxy collision 11 billion light-years away: 'We hence ...