The European Space Agency has retired its groundbreaking Gaia Spacecraft due to the depletion of its cold gas propellant.

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

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

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

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

After more than ten years in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially said goodbye to its Gaia spacecraft. On 27 ...

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

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 ...

After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...

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 ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

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