Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton telescope have made an unexpected discovery—two supernova remnants ...

The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star-forming region within a nearby satellite ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

Rare X-ray flash XRT 200515 spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud Scientists suggest a neutron star or magnetar as a possible source Future observations may reveal a new cosmic phenomenon ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery about how young stars form in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy ...

The galaxy NGC 4535, in the Virgo constellation, is about 50 million light-years from Earth. This beautiful image was ...

New evidence suggests that conditions in the early universe may have shaped star formation in surprising ways.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...