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

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

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

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

Two dwarf galaxies are waging war in the vicinity of our Milky Way and it looks like there is only one possible victor.Using ...

NGC 1850 is a young, double star cluster, also known as a globular-like stellar association, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. M74, also known as NGC 628 or the Phantom Galaxy, is a grand-design ...

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 Small Magellanic Cloud is less rich in elements heavier than helium," according to the European Space Agency, which owns and operates Hubble with NASA. "This makes conditions in the galaxy ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system HH 1177 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESO US Jobs Growth ...

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...

The SMC is close to the bigger Large Magellanic Cloud and is best seen from November to January — unless you're the Hubble Space Telescope, which recently zoomed in on the SMC to reveal its ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere.