Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...