After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...