With the gap between them very gradually narrowing as the binary system loses energy, the fact that they are so massive and ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy, is being torn apart by the gravitational ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic ...

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

The novice nun Maria is devout, eccentric, comical, forthright, tender, wry, panicked, sensuous, naïve, authoritative — in “The Sound of Music”, Julie Andrews is a force of nature. In a word, she is ...

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor just six light-years away. Using ultra-sensitive instruments, scientists ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of the Large Magellanic Cloud ... These stars, which are over eight times the mass of our Sun, typically survive for only a few million years ...