A new study shows that the Small Magellanic Cloud is being pulled apart by its larger sibling on the Milky Way's periphery, upending our understanding of our cosmic neighbor.

Astronomers may have uncovered new details about one of the Milky Way's most important ancient collisions. Using data from ...

When I’m painting, I have this weird feeling, like I’m crawling over the dimensions of the subject,” Claire Johnson says from the passenger seat of my Subaru. We’re on our way to stargaze at Golden ...

The transition from cluster to stream offers an extraordinary opportunity for exoplanetary science. Inside a dense cluster, ...

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Billions of years ago, the Milky Way endured a violent merger that reshaped its structure and sent stars careening into ...

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

Scientists believe virtually all large galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their core. These are regions millions to ...

ESA's Gaia mission has determined he orbits of 154,741 asteroids in our solar system. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have found themselves asking that same question about a handful of very strange stars. Among thousands of stars ...

I/ATLAS has caused quite a stir over the last year, inviting astronomers to update what they know about other solar systems ...

Astronomers spotted missing stars in nearby cluster NGC 6397, offering a rare look at processes deep inside red dwarfs.