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

Spring skies reveal some of the best galaxies visible to backyard telescopes.

A galaxy neighbouring ours is transforming in unexpected ways – and it could change our view of space, researchers say. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is one of the closest neighbours to our ...

The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.

Why doesn't Astronomy magazine recognize Messier 110? Keith LankfordHarvest, Alabama Amateur astronomers dubbed this object ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...