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The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

The European satellite, launched in 2013, has exhausted its gas reserves and is preparing to return to a stable orbit before being 'passivated.' But while the data collection that revolutionized ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has revealed a remarkable cosmic discovery—Inkathazo, a newly identified giant radio galaxy (GRG), whose name means ...

For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the presence of two gigantic, high-energy “bubbles” towering over and beneath the Milky Way’s center, extending 50,000 light-years into space. First ...

That means it's more than 30 times the size of our own Milky Way galaxy. It's also enigmatic ... the researchers used MeerKAT to create high-resolution spectral age maps of the galaxy. These can ...

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

The Galaxy Donut Shop is proof that Wyoming is more than just wide-open spaces and rodeos (although those are pretty great ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

That means it's more than 30 times the size of our own Milky Way galaxy. It's also enigmatic, the researchers say, with unusual qualities that defy simple explanation. They decided to name it after ...