The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Graphic: X. Zhang/G ... Gaia collected more than three trillion observations of the Milky Way between July 24, 2014 and January 15, 2025, after which the intrepid spacecraft promptly retired.

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

Astronomers have detected a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise, putting it in the minority. These findings are surprising because if the universe is random, as previously thought, "there should be an approximately equal ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An international ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the ...