We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.