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

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

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

From vibrant star-forming nebulae to supernova explosions, check out these 7 astonishing images of deep space shared by NASA.

Although astronomers have an abundance of evidence that most of the mass in any given galaxy is invisible, they do not yet ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

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

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...