In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

"Light pollution from projects like INNA doesn't just hinder research, it steals our shared view of the universe." ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...