The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

Astronomers have found strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy near ...

Han and his colleagues recently studied 21 of these hypervelocity stars at the fringes of the Milky Way. They traced the ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

This week, based on a genetic study, researchers issued a recommendation that bison in Yellowstone National Park should be ...