An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

The research sheds light on the violent births and deaths of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Stars tend to form within what ...

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 ...

Scientists have found that our nearest galaxy is undergoing 'gradual destruction' and could change everything that we know ...

The SMC remains one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. This proximity allowed the research team to identify and track approximately 7,000 massive stars within the galaxy. These stars ...

Scientists have found that our nearest galaxy is undergoing 'gradual destruction ... University in Japan have been studying the motion of stars in a galaxy neighbouring the Milky Way called the Small ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...