According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

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 ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

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

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

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

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

This new molecule could point the way to safe disposal of nuclear waste SpaceX launches classified NROL-69 mission from Cape ...