This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years ...

Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. This region, known as N11, is one of the galaxy’s ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." Two dwarf galaxies are waging war in the vicinity of ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and ...

Acetic acid, methyl formate and possibly glycolaldehyde are all associated with the creation of the first sugars, which form the basis of RNA and DNA—the foundations of life. "To find these also in ...

An ancient star discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud has revealed the chemical fingerprint of the early universe. It hints that conditions were not the same everywhere when the first stars forged ...

When scientists aimed the European Space Agency's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, at two mysterious lights on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, they discovered an unexpected source: two ...

Sewilo, M., Indebetouw, R., Carlson, L. R., Whitney, B. A., Chen, C. -H R., Meixner, M., Robitaille, T., van Loon, Jacco Thomas, Oliveira, J. M., Churchwell, E ...

New observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud show that it might actually be two galaxies disguised as one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...