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

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy ... with the Kepler-51 system. One way to do that will be to peer into ...

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

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

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

Most of the atoms in your body likely spent millions of years circling the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt" before returning to our galaxy prior to the solar system's creation, a new study ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...

Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way ... of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together ...