After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

the Triangulum galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud) taken into account, the researchers found the chances of a Milky Way-Andromeda collision were reduced to a coin flip. And if the merger does ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

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After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.