"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

A rogue magnetar, named SGR 0501+4516, is crossing our galaxy without a clear trace of its birth, according to a study ...

A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

two galaxies in close proximity to the Milky Way, are exhibiting unexpected behaviors that suggest a dramatic disruption. Researchers from Nagoya University in Japan have reported that the smaller ...

"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported ... so dense and solid” that his ship looked like “she was forcing her way through molten lead.” This might be an optical illusion, or there ...

Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull ...

The SMC and LMC are part of a group of galaxies gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. Both are expected to eventually merge with our galaxy in a few billion years. However, current evidence ...

The galaxy next to ours might be getting torn apart ... from – but the SMC’s stars do not appear to be moving in that way, suggesting that the gas itself is not rotating as expected.

In fact, the scientists believe that there may be an entire network of tunnels connecting to other bubbles throughout the galaxy ... A 3D map of the Milky Way’s Local Hot Bubble (LHB) created ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.