"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

(CNN) – Astronomers have made a surprising discovery about oxygen and elements in the most distant known galaxy. The galaxy ...

A map showing the Andromeda galaxy and its satellites. The newly discovered Andromeda XXXV companion galaxy is highlighted in bold red text. (Image credit: M. Arias et al. Astrophys. J. Lett ...

"It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice." Dwarf galaxies themselves are nothing new to scientists. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is orbited by ...