A mysterious repeating radio signal detected deep in the southern sky has been traced not to a neutron star or magnetar, as ...

"Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn't see these four stars directly." ...

Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Colorado Boulder have directly observed, for the first time, ...

No one had seen the creatures in more than two decades, leading scientists to wonder whether they'd gone extinct. That ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pictured is one of the three galaxies, Scl-MM-dw5, with its stars clustered at center. Three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies have been ...

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Four nearby white dwarf stars have been discovered hiding in plain sight beside brighter red dwarf companions. Hubble's ultraviolet observations finally revealed the long-hidden stellar remnants, ...

A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet – which could make it the smallest in the solar system – after new research revealed its shape, astronomers said on Monday. Nestled in the ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...

Learn how landslides detected on Pluto for the first time reveal the active geologic processes that shape the dwarf planet's surface. Landslides cause a lot of chaos on Earth, as rocks and other ...