The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the unusual Antlia Cluster.

These bodies, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, could represent a previously unknown type of interstellar object. The research, led by astrophysicist Takashi Shimonishi and his team, raises ...

The stunning red image of Tarantula Nebula was captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy. This 100 million-year-old globular cluster ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

The 'peculiar' objects don't resemble anything scientists have seen before and could even be an entirely new kind of star.

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

Astronomers have unveiled the largest-ever photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a sprawling celestial giant with over 1 ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...