Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement orbit" around the Sun on Thursday, the European Space Agency said.

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

A powerful “Cosmic Tornado” has received a high-definition glow-up thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

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

WASHINGTON – Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of ...

There are computer systems designed to discuss war plans and other secrets. They are accessible only in secured rooms, and it ...

Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...