The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

The movie is a telling look at the way we live now, when the gap between those struggling to pay the rent and those who are ...

Rand al’Thor is a singular figure in the Wheel of Time series: Though there are other men who try their hand at channeling, ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel, out March 18, is set 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, and tells the origin story of Katniss’ gruff mentor, Haymitch Abernathy. The story picks up on the ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our galaxy. As part of Expedition 72, Pettit and his team conduct crucial ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting measurable accelerations to Milky Way pulsars. They, in turn ...

So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.

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