The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

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Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

This spacecraft, dedicated to mapping the Milky Way, has exhausted its propellant gas reserves ... The Lagrange L2 point is a position in space where the gravitational forces of the Earth and the Sun ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...