ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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One of the largest galaxies ever found, the behemoth is about 1.44 billion light-years away and reckoned to be 32 times the ...

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

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

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