The discovery of 50 "ghost" galaxies located up to 100 million light-years away may solve an astronomy puzzle.

What if Jupiter gained just a little bit more mass during its formation period, and then ignited to become a star? How ...

Meet the anoa, an endangered dwarf buffalo native only to two Indonesian islands.

Using the Subaru Telescope's wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The newly discovered structure exhibits ...

The African dwarf crocodile is the world’s smallest living crocodile. These reptiles, nocturnal predators of crabs, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified a potential dwarf planet candidate, 2017 OF201, buried within ...

Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one-half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have captured the eroding remains of more than 100 dwarf galaxies as they ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller On a brown dwarf dozens of light years ...

In 2006, Pluto was famously demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet. It remains the most famous dwarf planet today, but there are others in our solar system, including potentially hundreds that ...