A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
The universe is vast and our journey to understand it has just begun.
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety ... distances in the cosmos.. Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...
Messier 31 is located 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and was a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies ...
NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...