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

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Scientists have discovered "space tornadoes" swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. International researchers made ...

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

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

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

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...