The rotating disk galaxy, mostly made up of dark matter, was discovered within a larger cloud of fast-moving hydrogen gas.

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

Scientists made the claim after analysing the data collected by the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia spacecraft.

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, you can see the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with your naked eye. It’s a dwarf galaxy satellite of the Milky Way looking fuzzy in the sky. What you wouldn’t know ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Scientists have found that our nearest galaxy is undergoing 'gradual destruction' and could change everything that we know ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud are at war, with the larger of these dwarf galaxies ripping the other ...