They're important to scientists because they're the chemical precursors to the molecules that build life, such as amino acids ...

Astrophysicists from Keele University, alongside an international research team supported by NASA, detected large complex ...

Scientists have discovered complex organic molecules, including acetic acid and ethanol, frozen in ice beyond the Milky Way, suggesting that life's chemical ingredients may be widespread across the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA), an international ...

The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...

To understand how the universe was formed and how we got here, ancient stars are some of the best objects to study — yet astronomers know surprisingly little about the conditions in which they were ...

When scientists aimed the European Space Agency's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, at two mysterious lights on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, they discovered an unexpected source: two ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

The Large Magellanic Cloud is identified as the brightest deep-sky object, with a magnitude of 0.1. The list comprises 26 deep-sky objects ranked by brightness, primarily open clusters, stellar ...