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 ...

"Our new maps nicely demonstrate that the spiral structure in the gas disk of the Milky Way is highly flocculent, and that the overall structure of the disk is complex," Dr. Craig adds.

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

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

A surprising new look at the Milky Way has scientists rethinking everything we thought we knew about our home galaxy. Thanks ...

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

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.