According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...
A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...
Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...
A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...
Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as "the discovery machine of the decade." ...
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...