The SMC’s low metallicity and weak gravitational structure make it a compelling analogue for the earliest galaxies in the ...

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light ...

Just 200 light-years from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, a region called Sagittarius C has puzzled astronomers.

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

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

"We think this may open the door to understanding how some galaxies were able to bypass the usual slow process of star ...

Scientists made the claim after analysing the data collected by the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia spacecraft.

The galaxy next to ours might be getting torn apart, a study has suggested. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC – a relatively ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had ...