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

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

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

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

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

The Paris-based digital aggregator Under The Milky Way (UMW) is celebrating the successful global distribution of 28 European ...