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

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

The CMZ is a region of clouds rich in dust and molecular gas that roils around the galactic nucleus. It measures up to 2,000 ...

ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers studying a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way may have just witnessed how ...

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

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...