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

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

It has been just over three years since JWST was launched into space and in that time, the telescope has dramatically ...

Spiral galaxies with less defined arms are called flocculent spiral galaxies. For reference, our Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, though researchers continue to investigate its exact structure ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

Comparison of simulation of three main star forming episodes in the spiral arms with the currently observed Cepheid variables. Oldest stars (red) are 400 million years old and the youngest (blue) are ...

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

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

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

which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image, we see the spiral galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC 4567 locked in a ...