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

Stars orbit the centers of galaxies. But beyond that, things get a little harder to visualize. Do galaxies — and, ...

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

Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around supermassive black holes, forming galaxies.

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

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

The one in the middle of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A(asterisk ... Scientists know stars can form near and even orbit these black hole behemoths, but they've never seen a pair of stars ...

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way. Published today in the journal Proceedings of the ...

Chocolate fans are delighted after discontinued chocolate bars have been spotted in a number of stores for a cheap price - ...