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

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Extragalactic archaeology has come of age, with astronomers for the first time reconstructing the history of a spiral galaxy.

An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

A galaxy next door was violently shattered by a cosmic crash, and the aftermath is rewriting everything astronomers thought ...

Spread the loveAstronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery concerning the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby galaxy that has long served as a reference point in the study of galaxy formation ...

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

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby ...

A nearby galaxy is undergoing a major transformation, and astronomers are watching the process unfold in real time ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

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