Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

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

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

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

In recent years, astronomers have been able to study the motion of the stars in the galaxy with outstanding precision. And ...

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

The galaxy next to ours might be getting torn apart, a study has suggested. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC – a relatively ...

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

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 ...

Astronomers thought they’d made a mistake when stars in a nearby galaxy didn’t seem to rotate — but the unusual pattern ...