If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

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has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way, ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...