Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope.

"This is only the third planet in observational history to be discovered so far from the Galactic bulge," Stonkutė said. Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way.

But researchers have just demonstrated that once you are far away from the planets of the Solar System, there might be a ...