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

Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...

This spacecraft, dedicated to mapping the Milky Way, has exhausted its ... the gravitational forces of the Earth and the Sun balance, allowing an object to maintain a stable position relative to these ...

"They are everywhere!" A terrifying finding made in a solar system void. The discovery of a record-mass stellar black hole in our galaxy.

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head. After more than a ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head ... 5 million kilometres ...

The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end – over 32 times the size of the Milky Way. I’m one of the lead researchers ... Here comes ‘trouble’ The MeerKAT ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years ... The aim is to build the largest and most precise 3D map of our local universe. The spacecraft's first data release ...

The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light-years from Earth. This relatively "nearby" distance, and its face-on orientation to Earth, make it an ideal ...