Dr. Pierre Martin and his team created an animation showing two galaxies colliding more than 440 million years ago.

Astronomers may have finally explained why the Small Magellanic Cloud isn’t spinning like it should. In a new study published ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, is undergoing a transformation visible from the southern hemisphere. This change is due ...

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and ...