WASHINGTON, March 6 (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 ...

With all this talk about an expanding universe, perhaps you're wondering how it is that astronomers know things are moving up there, let alone how fast they're moving. But astronomers routinely ...

According to Dr Clement Vidal, a philosopher from Vrije University Brussels, the fastest-moving stars in the galaxy may be piloted by intelligent aliens. The vast distances between the stars make ...

"We are seeing the first steps towards making the earliest stars and galaxies," she said ... polarization of light from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). That's the faint microwave glow ...

Further evidence for the Big Bang comes from the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR ... This indicates that more distant galaxies are moving away faster than nearer galaxies.

Only over time did astronomers realize that as the Earth moved around the Sun, some stars shifted in position relative to the background of ... to find a star beam by moving their hands in the ...