On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

A recent study has shown that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy approximately 200,000 light-years from ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long ...

O n April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope flew aboard space shuttle Discovery, which makes this year the 35th ...

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades ...

This paper reports the discovery of a high-velocity star J07 ejected from globular cluster M15 approximately 21 million years ...

By Alimat Aliyeva A group of European, British, and American astronomers has discovered 34 binary white dwarf systems i ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope ... spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

using data from China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telescope and European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory. Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas ...