ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

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

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

Milky Way is an arcade game where you have to avoid intergalactic dangers by dodging asteroids and other obstacles to get to ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

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

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.