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

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The cosmos conceals numerous mysteries from us, and the latest discoveries continue to amaze. Technological advancements, ...

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

"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

Colour image of J23453268-0449256, which is 300,000 light-years across, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is shown alongside a depiction of our own Milky Way galaxy, which is three ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...