Now we are officially in springtime, the days are getting longer, and the nights are shorter in the northern hemisphere.

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

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the ...

Findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy could be evolving over time. If ...

Nestled in the heart of a dark sky discovery site, budding and experienced astronomers will be able to make the most of the darkest skies in Norfolk at the Kelling Heath Holiday Park Star Party.

Beijing: An international of team astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way ... China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ... on data from China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber ...