An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, which they have named Pegasus VII. The newfound galaxy, which lies about 2.4 million light years away, was identified ...

Some of Andromeda's dwarf galaxies are particularly ... the dwarf galaxies should approach the dark matter halo — within which a large galaxy is growing from all angles — and therefore swarm ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

Researchers led by astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered the smallest and dimmest galaxy to date that’s orbiting the Andromeda system, the Milky Way’s nearest major galactic ...

The newfound galaxy, Andromeda XXXV, is seen within the white ellipse. | Credit: CFHT/MegaCam/PAndAS (Principal investigator: Alan McConnachie; Image processing: Marcos Arias) Astronomers have ...

The smallest, dimmest galaxy orbiting Andromeda to date. Image: CFHT/MegaCam/PAndAS (Principal investigator: Alan McConnachie; Image processing: Marcos Arias A group of astronomers has discovered ...