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

International team of astronomers discovers spiral galaxy defying cosmic norms, raising alarming questions for Milky Way's ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The galaxy, 2MASX J23453268−0449256, is three times the size of the Milky Way and houses a supermassive ... with well-defined spiral arms, a luminous central bar and an intact stellar ring.

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft . They told Gaia to shut ...

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia ...

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

A team of astronomers has stumbled upon a humungous spiral galaxy, about five times more massive than our Milky Way galaxy and covering an area two ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Gaia used its thrusters for the last time to push itself away from L2, and is now drifting around the Sun in a “retirement orbit” where it won’t get in anybody’s way. As part of the ...