The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

NGC 4826, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy, Messier 64, or M64, is a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, famous for its dark band of dust across ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...

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

To take just one example, Gaia improved our understanding of the structure of our own galaxy by showing that it has multiple ...

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 ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is a vast and intricate structure containing billions of stars, planets, and celestial bodies. To better navigate and study it, astronomers—and especially science ...