When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...

Han and his colleagues recently studied 21 of these hypervelocity stars at the fringes of the Milky Way. They traced the ...