Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

This illustration shows the Milky Way, our home galaxy. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way ... latest find is for real. Four private astronauts ...

Ancient pyramids yield new surprises Ancient Egyptian pyramids, thought to contain only the elite, may also hold low-class ...

The Big Ditch Park has a story that will make your family giggle – it used to be Main Street until a massive flood in 1895 washed it away! Nature decided to redecorate, and now it’s a beautiful park ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

Scientists have found a bizarre phenomenon near the middle of our galaxy. Tornado-like narrow, long filaments of gas spin around the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way. These previously ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

As a star factory, the SMC fascinates astronomers because it lacks the heavier elements found in large galaxies like the Milky Way. These heavy elements are the byproducts of multiple generations ...