NASA astronaut Don Pettit imaged the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as the International Space Station cruised 260 miles ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

On his fourth flight, Don Pettit is once again sharing the art of astrophotography, capturing and posting pictures of Earth, ...

A new photograph shared by NASA offers a peek at the breathtaking views seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The ...

Don Pettit packed a home-made tracker to space, allowing him to bless our timelines with long-exposure images.

If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the ...

After years of effort, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced they managed to capture the first ...

The required supernova explosion would need to come from a massive star dying and exploding either within the Milky Way or one in of its satellite galaxies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Discovered in 1993, RX J0513.9−6951 (or RXJ0513 for short) is a luminous transient SSS in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Previous observations of RXJ0513 have found that it exhibits strong ...

This is suggested by a new analysis of the so-called halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud (GMW), which has now been presented. According to the study, this structure of gas surrounding the dwarf ...