The Magellanic Clouds are two dwarf galaxies visible from the Southern Hemisphere, and they orbit the Milky Way. However, there is another celestial body called the Magellanic Bridge connecting the ...

An asteroid called 2020 CD3 was bound to Earth for several years before leaving the planet’s orbit in 2020 and another called 2022 NX1 became a mini-moon of Earth in 1981 and 2022 and will return ...

Europe's tallest building was illuminated with galaxy colours for Cosmos Day in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Stunning footage shows the Lakhta Centre, which stands at 1,516ft, glowing blue beside the ...

Astronauts spend 4 days in polar orbit Read full article ... a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. (NASA via AP) Webb Space Telescope captures ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...