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 ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...

Astronomers studying a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way may have just witnessed how ...

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

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope ...

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

Astronomers suggest there's a giant "star grinder" lurking at the center of the Milky Way, churning up star systems.

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...