The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the Milky Way's most massive satellite galaxy. Because it's so easily observed, astronomers have…
Astronomers have imaged dozens of protoplanetary discs around Milky Way stars, seeing them at all stages of formation. Now, one…
Our galaxy’s largest nearby companion is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy visible to the naked eye in…
A new study shows how hypervelocity stars could teach us more about the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the…
The Tarantula Nebula, also called 30 Doradus, is the brightest star-forming region in our part of the galaxy. It's in…
Open star clusters are groups of stars in loosely-bound gravitational associations. The stars are further apart than the stars in…
ESA and NASA dusted off some old data from four retired space telescopes and combined forces to reveal new images…
The James Webb Space Telescope is now in the final phase of commissioning as it readies for science observations. Of…
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is over 200,000 light-years away, yet it's still one of our galaxy's closest neighbours in…
Astronomers have found a smaller, stellar-mass black hole lurking in a nearby satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. The…