The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
In their study published Thursday in the journal Science, they showed that by measuring the distance between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional ...
Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured using the NOIRLabs’ International Gemini Observatory. NOIRLabs says that ...