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

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

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

This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...

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

Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...

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

In January of 2025, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released this panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...

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

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

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 ...