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

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

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

It has been just over three years since JWST was launched into space and in that time, the telescope has dramatically ...

Spiral galaxies with less defined arms are called flocculent spiral galaxies. For reference, our Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, though researchers continue to investigate its exact structure ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

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

Unless one is a scientist or a teacher of the sciences, it would be understandable if a person may not be familiar with ...

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

NASA captured this stunning image of Messier 75 or M75, also known as NGC 6864, which is a giant globular cluster of stars in the southern constellation Sagittarius.