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Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

Astronomers have identified a colossal giant radio galaxy (GRG) stretching 3.3 million light-years across—32 times the size ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

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

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

While spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are flat, the most ancient galaxies in the early universe seen by astronomers ... and the Chinese Space Station, to map the stars within the ancient ...