A black hole 600,000 times the mass of the Sun was discovered close to the Milky Way, and it is shooting stars at us. Home to ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy and one of our closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a cosmic drama that could fundamentally alter our understanding of galactic evolution. Recent ...

They are rich in gas and young stars, making them ideal subjects for studying galaxy evolution. Connected by the Magellanic Bridge, a stream of gas, these galaxies are experiencing tidal forces from ...

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

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they ...

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

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...

Astronomers thought they’d made a mistake when stars in a nearby galaxy didn’t seem to rotate — but the unusual pattern ...

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

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

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...