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

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 ...

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

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

Study Suggests A Galactic Collision Is Remaking One Of Earth’s Closest Neighboring Galaxies In A Nutshell The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy visible from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere, is ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long integration time, spanning around four hours, allowed faint galactic features to emerge: the luminous central bar, wisps ...

A coalition of astronomers is pushing to rename the Milky Way’s closest neighboring galaxies, arguing that the Portuguese explorer they are named after was a “murderer” who had nothing to do with ...

Astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) have created the most detailed radio image of nearby dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, revealing secrets of how it formed and how it is ...

The Energy Department is inviting researchers to apply for a space in its $32 million Magellan cloud computing evaluation program that's exploring the effectiveness of the cloud for a range of ...

Astronomers have combined hundreds of thousands of Spitzer Space Telescope images into a map of the whole Large Magellanic Cloud. They see features throughout the galaxy in such sharp detail that they ...