Contained within a small galaxy located 5.3 million light-years away are big clues about how stars can form. In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Most small galaxies that stopped making new stars in the early universe never resumed ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a sprinkling of stars in the Leo P dwarf galaxy, located about 5 million light years away in the constellation Leo. Their blue appearance shows that the ...

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue). Leo P is a star-forming galaxy located about 5 million light ...