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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: dottedhippo via Getty Images An advanced alien civilization may want to cruise around the ...

A researcher has proposed the idea that long-lived alien civilizations may have motivations to move elsewhere in the galaxy - and the best way to do that is by steering their binary star system. If ...

Supermassive black holes appear to reside at the center of every galaxy and to have done so since galaxies formed early in the history of the Universe. Currently, however, we can’t entirely explain ...

Daryl Haggard is in the Department of Physics and the Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada. In a cluster that spans more than 30 parsecs, 7 stars less than ...

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, a new paper suggests. A few known star systems might fit the bill. When ...