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

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

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

Skowron and the team found it is not flat like a disk, but rather warped and twisted – a feature previously detected but never before seen in this way. With this new information and cutting-edge three ...

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 ...

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

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

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