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

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery ... spiral galaxy would destroy the structure of that galaxy, particularly ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

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

researchers unraveled the structure and evolution of the spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256, which is three times the size of the Milky Way. Using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope ...

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

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s ... jets should be disrupting the spiral galaxy’s comparatively delicate structure. However, that’s not the case ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

Astronomers have discovered a new giant molecular cloud (GMC) in the Milky Way, a finding that has expanded our understanding ...

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

Scientists say they’ve found “space tornadoes” swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. While the galaxy’s centre, including the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, is known to be ...