Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

Find a remote area in a national park, miles from the nearest ... the Milky Way to spin. In short, our sun is about two-thirds of the way from the center of the galaxy, and astronomers know that it ...

This week, based on a genetic study, researchers issued a recommendation that bison in Yellowstone National Park should be ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

This task is somewhat less challenging around the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, Andromeda. Other dwarf galaxies have been spotted around Andromeda before, but these have been large and ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...