The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During ...

This historical climate shift occurred over hundreds of thousands of years, contrasting sharply with the rapid pace of current global warming driven by human activity.

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna, has revealed that the Solar System passed through the ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

Fig.1: Artistic representation of the Milky Way. The position of the Solar System is pointed by a white row. Our sun and its ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

The observations detailed the extreme environment in the immediate vicinity of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* is about ...