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 mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

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 charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

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.

"We really shouldn't have found a galaxy like this, given our understanding of the way the universe has evolved," said ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole ... while approximately one-third of them rotated counterclockwise. The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise, putting it in the minority.

The lengths comedians will go — and the places they’ll perform — in hopes of a big break should be the subject of a scientific study one day. It’s the type of dedication only learned ...

Ancient Greek philosophers debated the Milky Way’s nature, with some attributing it to celestial fires and others viewing it as a dense cluster of distant stars. Credit: Ale RaFlo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via ...