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

Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.

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

The galactic center may hide an unsuspected population of stellar black holes, far denser than expected. A recent study ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

Astronomers find strange, tornado-like filaments of gas rotating around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing ...

The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star" is still pending -- but the event will ...

At the start of March, Mercury and Venus lay in the west after sunset. Now both have passed between us and the Sun into the ...

Explore the four galactic quadrants of the Milky Way and find out which one contains Earth, from scientific facts to sci-fi lore like Star Trek.

IRISH stargazers are in for a rare treat as a partial eclipse of the sun will illuminate the sky TOMORROW – but experts have ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.