Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...
After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.
The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
They have now hit upon a jackpot as they detected oxygen in a new world. However, this world is not in our Solar System, in ...
Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ... encompasses Earth, such as where and how many galaxies there are that surround the Milky Way.
A stunning new discovery has revealed a massive spiral galaxy, located nearly 1 billion light-years away, that is doing ...
Breathtaking photos of this month's total lunar eclipse capture a blood red moon and star-studded Milky Way over NOIRLab's ...
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...
Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...
After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.