Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...

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

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

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way.

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

The Sun, the planets, and all the other flotsam and jetsam that constitute the solar system are so insignificant ... bob up and down through the Milky Way’s arm. Our planetary system also ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.