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 mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

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

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

Astronomers have discovered a new giant molecular cloud (GMC) in the Milky Way, a finding that has expanded our understanding ...