The European Space Agency has retired its groundbreaking Gaia Spacecraft due to the depletion of its cold gas propellant.

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

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

After more than ten years in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially said goodbye to its Gaia spacecraft. On 27 ...

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After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

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 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star" is still pending -- but the event will ...

At the start of March, Mercury and Venus lay in the west after sunset. Now both have passed between us and the Sun into the ...

The CMZ is a region of clouds rich in dust and molecular gas that roils around the galactic nucleus. It measures up to 2,000 ...