We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across ... How our own ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers have spotted the shiniest known planet in the Milky Way, and it has metal ... only bounces back 30% of its sunlight. Venus, the solar system's shiniest planet, reflects 75% of the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing the existence of "cosmic tunnels" that connect our solar system to other stars. Using data from the eRosita X-ray ...