Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...

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 ...

The findings, detailed in the Astrophysical Journal Letters on October 20, 2025, by a team led by University of Maryland and ...

The “Small Magellanic Cloud,” a fascinating, long cloud of stars in the southern hemisphere skies. Its appearance to the naked eye is striking, and with its counterpart – the “Large Magellanic Cloud” ...

Ah, the Milky Way, our glittering home in the cosmos. Seen in an unencumbered night sky, far from the glare of city lights, it seems magnificent and eternal in its enormity. Nothing could shift this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way -- the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds -- may have had a third companion, astronomers believe. New research describes how another 'luminous' galaxy was ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is what Austin Powers might call a quasi galaxy, just one percent the Milky Way's size and orbiting it like a hanger-on. At a distance of 163,000 light-years from Earth, you ...