Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, may be getting torn apart by the gravitation pull ...

Usually, young massive stars move around along with the gas that they were born from – but the SMC’s stars do not appear to be moving in that way, suggesting that the gas itself is not ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Paint is an easy way to perk up a space, but reaching for a roll of wallpaper works even better when you really want to make an impact. There ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered a new type of long, narrow “slim filaments” in the Milky Way’s central molecular zone, revealing surprising details about shock-induced material circulation near ...

The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers per second. In the νHDM model, this value fits nicely within the predicted range, due to the way ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C (Sgr C). Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s ...

Walmart has a new “Onn 4K Plus” streaming device on the way, and the hardware seems like it’s going to fill a gap left by the death of the Chromecast. Google announced last year that ...

Accelerate your tech game Paid Content How the New Space Race Will Drive Innovation How the metaverse will change the future of work and society Managing the Multicloud The Future of the Internet ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Though Gaia’s systems are now silent, its scientific impact is just beginning to unfold. Launched in 2013, Gaia set out to map the Milky Way with a level of detail never before achieved. Over the ...

In the absolute omnishambles of the Milky Way galactic center, we've just found a new kind of turbulent structure. After puzzlement, then analysis, a team of astronomers led by Kai Yang of Shanghai ...