If the Large Magellanic Cloud were not quite so massive, the Milky Way would have robbed it of any opportunity to form new ...

Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space ...

Cosmologists are unraveling a perplexing mystery: the universe appears to be expanding faster than predicted. Known as the ...

Astrophotographer Josh Dury’s photo of the Milky Way over Easter Island’s Moai statues has been honoured by NASA as Astronomy Photo of the Day.

Ram-pressure stripping is explained by the Milky Way’s gravitational pull, which caused a 'wind' effect, stripping the LMC’s ...

Hubble captures LMC's interaction with the Milky Way’s halo. Surprising findings show LMC’s compact gas halo. Ram-pressure ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

Recent observations using Hubble have allowed astronomers to measure the size of the Large Magellanic Cloud's halo for the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning phenomenon happening in the outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy.

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

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The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...