Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

This 100-million-year-old globular cluster lies within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, celebrated as a birthplace for billions of stars. This image of Caldwell 69 ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work ... images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable ...

foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far beyond Andromeda (shown in yellowish-orange). B: A bright star cloud in Andromeda called NGC 206. C: A star-forming region ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ... our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located ...

Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite of our Milky Way Galaxy, this region is a host to many burgeoning stars. N79 is a 1,630-light-year-wide region containing three distinct ...

NGC 300 is a small galaxy in a relatively ... of a massive companion like the Milky Way, which affects nearby small galaxies like the Large Magellanic Cloud. It's almost a bit like looking at ...