Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Milky Way. Gaia made over three trillion ...

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

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

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

By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way ...

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

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

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

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

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...