Astronomers trace the Small Magellanic Cloud’s unusual stellar motions to a past cosmic encounter.

Earth is not only orbiting the Sun it is also traveling through the Milky Way on an enormous galactic journey. In this video ...

Astronomers believe that there have been three generations of stars in the universe. The first, which are yet to be seen directly, were made of just hydrogen and helium. The Sun is among the last ones ...

A newly discovered star suggests tiny relic galaxies like Pictor II preserved the chemical material created by the universe's ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby ...

Chinese astronomers have identified a pair of young, blue "baby star clusters" on the outskirts of the Milky Way, approximately 45,000 light-years from Earth. They have named the twin clusters Emei-1 ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible ...

New observations of L 98-59d, a member of the five-planet system L 98-59, suggest it harbors a vast global magma ocean that ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy ...

Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun.