Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases detailed dusty clouds in the Tarantula Nebula, a massive ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

The spiral galaxy M83 is captured face-on, providing a clear view of its full structure. Chandra's X-ray data reveals remnants from widespread stellar explosions, or supernovas, while ground-based ...

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud. John A Davis/Shutterstock The Milky Way is orbited by several dozens of satellites, smaller galaxies much smaller than our own.

A brief yet intense X-ray flash, XRT 200515, was detected in NASA's Chandra telescope data from 2000. The signal, originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, has left scientists debating its cause.

Acknowledgement: Josh Lake Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space in a long and slow dance around our galaxy.

The renaming effort for the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud is being led by Dr. Mia de los Reyes, an assistant professor of astronomy at Amherst College in Massachusetts, who ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (upper left and center left, respectively) float majestically above the Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.