Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

They explored how the Milky Way, Andromeda, and their significant satellite galaxies, like M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), interact gravitationally. Possible future MW-M31 orbits.

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Chinese researchers examining European data find freshly formed stars rotate much faster than their predecessors.

The Milky Way is so big that, over billions of years, its mass has captured numerous dwarf galaxies, which contain no more ...

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

New map of Milky Way in atomic hydrogen reveals its clumped 'flocculent' nature for first time by Russ Nelson, University of Alabama in Huntsville edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

"This is only the third planet in observational history to be discovered so far from the Galactic bulge," Stonkutė said. ESA/ATG Medialab/NASA - PHOTO: Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way.