It is located about 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.

Astronomers trace the Small Magellanic Cloud’s unusual stellar motions to a past cosmic encounter.

A galaxy neighbouring ours is transforming in unexpected ways – and it could change our view of space, researchers say. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is one of the closest neighbours to our ...

Galaxy next door to us is ‘transforming’ and changing our understanding of space - The ‘Small Magellanic Cloud’ does not look ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling ...

Using a novel technique that examines the motion of two nearby galaxy groups within their surrounding cosmic flow, an ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...