New research based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has revealed that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other ...

A team at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s ...

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

As they watched those stars, researchers noticed that they appeared to be getting pulled apart by the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, which itself neighbours the galaxy. “The stars in the SMC ...

It shows the star cluster NGC 346, located in a satellite galaxy ... where clouds of colorful gas are criss-crossed by dark strands of dust. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, this nebula ...

The galaxies in question are the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, both of which are less than 200,000 light years away from our home galaxy. A precise measurement of the movement of thousands of ...

A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring ...

An illustration shows a large galaxy ripping a smaller galaxy apart ... history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." The new findings could help ...