One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...

It wasn’t all that many years ago that you could go to a major astronomy meeting and hear the latest news about galaxies and supernovas and quasars and the Big Bang — but nothing at all about planets ...

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. These galaxies are more than just neighbors: They're gravitationally bound. And for the ...

The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

Current estimates suggest 3I/ATLAS may be up to 12 miles in diameter. According to physicist Marshall Eubanks, the object appears to be arriving from the thin galactic disk, the plane in which most ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

(CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long ...

Today astronomers are saying goodbye to a remarkable spacecraft: a telescope that has observed nearly two billion stars in its 12-year life. The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency (ESA) ...