ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...