A large international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has found evidence showing that the Small Magellanic Cloud is not a single galaxy—it is actually two, one behind the other. The group has ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a small dwarf galaxy, is being literally torn apart by its larger neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This phenomenon shakes our view of the Milky Way's ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby star. Also called molecular clouds, these regions of space can be massive, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study shows that the ...

Astronomer using Hubble finds "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

Researchers have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer ...

Astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) have created the most detailed radio image of nearby dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, revealing secrets of how it formed and how it is ...

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic rays in two neighbouring galaxies, showing areas of star formation and echoes of past supernovae. The ...

A coalition of astronomers is pushing to rename the Milky Way’s closest neighboring galaxies, arguing that the Portuguese explorer they are named after was a “murderer” who had nothing to do with ...