An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

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

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

By analyzing the available observational data, astronomers from the Tribhuvan University in Nepal and elsewhere have ...

"However, upon closer examination, the results are indisputable, and we were surprised." The SMC remains one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. This proximity allowed the research team to ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC is a dwarf galaxy located about 200,000 ...

Barnard's Star is a red dwarf star and is the fourth nearest star to the Sun at approximately 6 light years distance. The distance from the Milky Way to Andromeda, the next nearest spiral galaxy ...

And yet, the closest galaxy to us is beating those odds. So when is a coincidence just a coincidence, and when does it open a window into a deeper mystery? The dwarf galaxies are all orbiting M31 ...

Astronomers have uncovered shocking evidence that one of the closest galaxies to our own ... the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy that, alongside its neighbor the Large Magellanic ...