We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing ... of dark matter that envelops our galaxy. "This work opens a promising ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy ... to what our Milky Way galaxy might have looked like at the same stage of development. Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...