"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Scientists have found that our nearest galaxy is undergoing 'gradual destruction' and could change everything that we know ...

Scientists made the claim after analysing the data collected by the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia spacecraft.

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 ...

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

A team of researchers at Nagoya University has discovered evidence that the Small Magellanic Cloud is potentially being torn ...

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to amaze - not just by what it sees, but by what it doesn’t. Its latest focus is NGC 346, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210,000 light-years ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby galaxy to our Milky Way, is undergoing a dramatic transformation, according to recent research. The study reveals that the gravitational pull of the ...

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." The new findings could help scientists better ...