The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

The Magellanic Stream is a cosmic battle scar from an ancient game of tug-of-war, and it’s headed right for us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way Galaxy. The ...

Our galaxy is not alone. Swirling around the Milky Way are several smaller, dwarf galaxies — the biggest of which are the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible in the night sky of the Southern ...

The Magellanic Stream is a ribbon of gas that wraps around our home galaxy, but its origin story has been elusive. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that.

The Magellanic Stream, a giant flow of gas from neighbor galaxies around our own Milky Way, is much longer and older than previously thought. The new observations support a new insight on what started ...

For decades, scientists were at a loss to explain the source of the so-called Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas discovered in the early 1970s that extends nearly halfway around the Milky Way.

Sept. 9 (UPI) --Billions of years ago, a pair of dwarf galaxies known as the Magellanic Clouds were pulled into orbit around the Milky Way. Along the way, the Milky Way stripped a massive stream of ...

Astronomers have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around our Milky Way galaxy. New Hubble observations reveal that most ...

The origins of a mysterious ribbon of gas that stretches nearly halfway around the Milky Way has been discovered by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Ever since its discovery 40 years ago, ...

The Magellanic Stream is a cosmic battle scar from an ancient game of tug-of-war, and it’s headed right for us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

MADISON, Wis. — Our galaxy is not alone. Swirling around the Milky Way are several smaller, dwarf galaxies — the biggest of which are the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible in the night sky of ...