In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
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.
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...
The space industry started off 2025 with a bang. January brought the dual launch of lunar landers from the Texas-based ...
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...