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

This is a new artists animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESAs Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the ...

It spirals in toward a particularly galaxy-dense region, zooming by a factor of 75 ... On top of the static sky of stars in ...

Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace ...

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

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

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

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

Black holes are some of the universe's greatest mysteries, incredibly dense and sometimes massive void that suck in anything and everything that passes their event horizons. Now a relatively nearby ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

Tuesday, January 14, 2025: NASA astronaut Don Petit captured a stunning image of zodiacal light and our home galaxy, the Milky Way, from the International Space Station (ISS). Petit shared the ...

Since dark matter governs the motion of stellar streams, astronomers can use them to trace invisible dark matter in a galaxy. The Milky Way’s galactic halo, a roughly spherical region surrounding the ...