The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is considered a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's actually visible to the naked eye ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

Astronomers have observed a primeval star that they believe to be the most “pristine” object in the universe. A team led by ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner, ...

The star is known as SDSS J0715-7334. It is a red giant star in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The metallicity of ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, J. Maíz Apellániz This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on Sept. 12, 2025, ...

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...

Astronomers have discovered a primeval but the most pristine star ever found in the universe. According to a research team ...

Photographer Ani Shastri of the United States received the top honors for Deep Field Squid Nebula (Ou4), a stunning image of a nebula about six times the size of the full moon. The judging panel ...