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

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

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.

Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

The exquisite map of our galaxy it assembled has enabled scientists ... which may have had a lasting impact on Earth's ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to the Milky Way — is being torn apart by its larger neighbor.

Scientists have discovered that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is larger than should be ... At 40 light years away from Earth, TRAPPIST-1's four Goldilocks zone planets are one of the prime ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to ...