Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

A HUGE 1kg bag of Celebrations chocolates is on sale for just £1.99 at a big supermarket. A bargain hunter tipped off other ...

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, US' Alice Walton is the world's richest woman as of Friday, March 7, 2025 with ...

The six-legged Athena lander, carrying 11 payloads and scientific instruments, touched down at a site some 100 miles (160 km) from the lunar south pole after launching atop a SpaceX rocket on February ...