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

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

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 ...

Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.

International team of astronomers discovers spiral galaxy defying cosmic norms, raising alarming questions for Milky Way's ...

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia ...

Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...

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

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...