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 ...

For the past 35 years, an unusual radio signal from deep space has continued to reach Earth at regular intervals — every 22 minutes, like cosmic clockwork. Discovered only recently by researchers and ...

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 ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This detection confirms the feasibility of this formation route for nuclei in dwarf ...

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...