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 ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

Most of the atoms in your body likely spent millions of years circling the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt" before returning to our galaxy prior to the solar system's creation, a new study ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...