The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is potentially being torn apart by the gravitational pull of its larger neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Observations ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

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

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring ... regions rich in hydrogen gas, a crucial component of star ...

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy ...

A growing number of young people in Michigan are overdosing on nitrous oxide — a dangerous misuse of the “laughing gas” that ...

researchers from the Chinese National Academy of Sciences discovered that a fast-moving cloud of gas near the Milky Way may not be a cloud at all, but rather a small galaxy made mostly of dark matter.