Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

Gaia Is Done. Its Final Discovery Exposes the Milky Way’s Hidden Secret! Welcome to Johannesburg. This Is What It Looks Like ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

New simulations reveal the glow at Milky Way’s heart may come from dark matter, challenging long-held cosmic theories.

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have detected 87 stellar streams associated with globular clusters (GCs) in our Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An edge-on visual of the Milky Way, based on data from the European Space Agency's Gaia ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...