It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

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

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

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

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 ...

Observations show that giant star WOH G64 rapidly changed temperature and identity, revealing massive stars evolving in real ...

MOTHRA observing at night. Each mount is equipped with a wide area web cam. Besides the mount in the foreground two others ...

DERWOOD, Md (DC News Now) — Overcrowding at the Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center, MCASAC, has left it at critical capacity. There are too many dogs, especially large ones, waiting ...

Those on the 900 block of Ninth Street South in St. Cloud might have noticed a large police presence Wednesday night. Shortly before 11 p.m. March 4, St. Cloud police officers pulled a 21-year-old St.

WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known. Earlier estimates put it ...

One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object undergo a dramatic transformation, a team of astronomers say the star is on the verge of ...