Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

The photographer, who tied the job in with an "impromptu date night" with his wife said: “The journey was filled with ...

Scientists have discovered "space tornadoes" swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. International researchers made ...

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

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

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

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." ...

Our own Milky Way has a 4 million solar mass black hole – Sagittarius ... The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), founded in ...

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

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

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...