There are literally billions upon billions of galaxies out there in the cosmos, but the Milky Way is just a little bit ...

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 ...

For centuries, sailors spotted a soft white light across ocean waters, known as "milky seas." A new study examines the ...

To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

They are rich in gas and young stars, making them ideal subjects for studying galaxy evolution. The LMC and SMC are connected by a stream of gas known as the Magellanic Bridge and are slowly being ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby galaxy to our Milky Way, is undergoing a dramatic transformation, according to recent research. The study reveals that the gravitational pull of the ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

Learn more about the songs of the stars, which tell of the transformation of our galaxy over time.

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...