ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...
A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...
Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 light years across, and that our solar system was 50,000 light-years from ...
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...