Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Gupta explained that hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for the formation of stars.

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky ... galaxy that encompasses Earth, such as where and how many galaxies there are that surround the Milky Way.

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down ...

The outflow is about 625 light-years from Earth in one of the closest star-forming regions of our Milky Way galaxy, according to NASA. A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three times the size of the Milky Way. Like our own galaxy, a supermassive ...