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

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...