Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...

Take, for example, Dottie. This small but mighty Brussels Griffon gets her teeny stature from having dwarfism, but when she ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

The observed gas dynamics were largely influenced by the tidal forces between these galaxies as well as their closeness to ...

Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.

The recently discovered galaxy, known as SDSS J011754.86+095819.0, or dE01+09, seems to be one of these "runaway" systems.

An international team of astronomers has performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a compact stellar system ...

In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her colleagues opted for the name Persephone, after Pluto's wife and "queen of the ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...