A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

The Sun may have been part of a small group of stars that migrated from the core of our galaxy between 4 and 6 billion years ago.

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

The Small Magellanic Cloud or the SMC is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors – a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the naked eye from ...

Capturing the Milky Way doesn't require thousands of dollars in gear. Here is my simple guide to using your smartphone—or camera—and the dark sky to take professional-quality photos.

A team at Tokyo Metropolitan University led by Daisuke Taniguchi used this approach to compare the Sun with thousands of ...

Spread the loveThe cosmos has always fascinated astronomers and researchers, revealing secrets about the origins and behaviors of stars. Recently, a groundbreaking study has shed light on the early ...

A new study suggests the Sun moved outward with many similar stars during a large Milky Way migration event long ago.

Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of ...

Data from ESA's Gaia mission has been used to create an 3D animated view of the Milky Way galaxy's stellar nurseries. CREDIT ...