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

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

Scientists have found that our nearest galaxy is undergoing 'gradual destruction' and could change everything that we know ...

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

A team of researchers at Nagoya University has discovered evidence that the Small Magellanic Cloud is potentially being torn ...

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

Scientists made the claim after analysing the data collected by the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia spacecraft.

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

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

An illustration shows a large galaxy ripping a smaller galaxy ... history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." The new findings could help scientists ...