Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...

BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Despite having recently officially ended its science operations in January, Gaia, one of the most prolific star explorers ...

Astronomers have been left stunned after uncovering a "stealthy" gigantic black hole "hiding in the galaxy next door". A ...

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.

They traced the speedy stars' trajectories, using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, as a way of ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

ESO Observations Help Almost Fully Rule out 2024 YR4 Asteroid Impact Feb. 25, 2025 — New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Questions that have long eluded astronomers could finally be answered with the launch of an advanced space telescope NASA has spent years developing. Once in orbit, the instrument known as SPHEREx ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe the full planetary parade more closely and give you a front-row seat to the total lunar eclipse on 13-14 March. The best telescopes unlock the wonders of ...