The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.
Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...
Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...
NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...
Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...
Scientists have made a huge breakthrough after discovering that alien plants may be using the stars in the Milky Way to ...
"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...
A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An international ...