Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

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

Astronomers find strange, tornado-like filaments of gas rotating around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and the Pythagoreans.

Scientists have discovered "space tornadoes" swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. International researchers made ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the ...

International team of astronomers discovers spiral galaxy defying cosmic norms, raising alarming questions for Milky Way's ...

After more than a decade of service, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down for good—closing one ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...