ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a stellar duo just 5,000 light-years away in the Milky Way responsible for creating carbon-rich dust. In the Wolf-Rayet 140 system, ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...

Along this direction, a supernova from a runaway star is shown with a bright blob which explains the absorption by the very hot gas. Credit: Arunima V Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating ...