Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

NASA has released a breathtaking new image captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing a portion of the Tarantula Nebula, a ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

At the heart of the red nebula, called NGC 2014, lie bright young stars. Each is 10 to 20 times heavier than our Sun.

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have ...

Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning view of the Large Magellanic Cloud, revealing swirling gas and dust in vibrant colors. These "cotton candy ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after Portuguese explorer ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is visible from the southern hemisphere, located in the constellation of Dorados. One can see this galaxy together with a smaller neighbouring galaxy, the Small ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, located 160,000 light-years from Earth, is one of a handful of dwarf galaxies that orbit our own Milky Way.

Molecular clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tokuda et al., ESA/Herschel) “We sought to understand the formation and evolution of stellar nurseries — molecular clouds ...