Río Serrano Hotel + Spa is a family-owned boutique hotel set at the gateway to Torres del Paine National Park.

Proposed Names for the Magellanic Clouds The International Astronomical Union is yet to receive a petition for the renaming of the galaxies. However, a petition from around 50 individuals who ...

Scientists said Thursday they have taken the first ever close-up image of a star outside of the Milky Way, capturing a blurry ...

The president reaffirmed his commitment to tackling climate change en route to a G20 summit in Brazil.

An Argentine farmer was given a three-year prison sentence for animal cruelty Wednesday, likely to be commuted, after being ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ...

Our galaxy's two closest neighbors are two dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Being much smaller in mass (the LMC is 10% the mass of ...

In May, an array of asteroid-watching telescopes on Earth spotted an outburst nestled in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors which is home to four of only ...

Numbers of Magellanic penguins have dropped dramatically since the turn of the century with some colonies halving in the past 15 years. There are thought to be around 1.2 million left in the world.

Hubble observes Galactic Encounter: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured the effects of a near-collision between the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), from the ...

You can see about 2,000 stars with your naked eye. With your naked eye, you can see more than 7,000 stars and planets at the Scottish Dark Sky Observatory in Galloway Forest Park in Scotland.