ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...