The globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy that is approximately 160,000 light-years away from Earth.

T he Gemini North Telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, studies the skies above Maunakea, a mountain in Hawai'i. Its twin, the Gemini South Telescope, is based in the Chilean ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange and exciting new object in space. Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a ...

The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Three satellites created a triangle shape near the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii. | Credit ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that astronomers initially struggled to explain.

A powerful radio signal detected in 2024 was traced to a defunct 1960s satellite. Skip to content. NOWCAST 40/29 ... James and his colleagues were looking at came from the ASKAP radio telescope, ...