A team at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

Get ready to be amazed by the breathtaking beauty of spiral galaxies! NASA has shared stunning images of these cosmic wonders ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

NASA's Hubble has captured stunning images of NGC 4941, revealing details of star formation, helping scientists understand ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy and one of our closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a cosmic drama that could fundamentally alter our understanding of galactic evolution. Recent ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies. The largest "grand design" spirals can host a dozen or more individual arms. But recently ...

Andre van der Hoeven (Netherlands) combined different datasets in the archives of the Hubble Space Telescope to create this stunning image of spiral galaxy Messier 77. | Credit: Andre van der ...