Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

In the center of the Milky Way, the conditions are actually ideal for the formation of stars. Now there is a clue as to why ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

That’s a reference to the fact that, for example, the more we realize the true dimensions of the Milky Way, it gives us a better understanding of what (and how many) galaxies are revolving ...