An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

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

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

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.

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

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

Such hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for star formation. Therefore, these cold gas ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

The "music" of starquakes - enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...