Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

This historical climate shift occurred over hundreds of thousands of years, contrasting sharply with the rapid pace of current global warming driven by human activity.

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During ...

The background panoramic Milky Way view and inset were modified from ESA/Gaia/DPAC. Dr. Joel C. Zinn is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at California State University, Long Beach, ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C (Sgr C). Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2025 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide. Looking for a telescope for the next night sky event? We recommend the Celestron ...

The idea of a doomsday vault hidden on a remote Norwegian Arctic island might sound like something from the latest James Bond movie. But the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is very much real - and ...

Discovering a Stunted Giant: An Intermediate Mass Black Hole Hiding in the Milky Way astrobites (Weblog) 17:25 Sun, 02 Mar Scientists Uncover Unpredictable Light Bursts from the Supermassive Black ...