Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been anticipating the chance to compare my predictions to new data for four years, ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

They explored how the Milky Way, Andromeda, and their significant satellite galaxies, like M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), interact gravitationally. Possible future MW-M31 orbits.

Chinese researchers examining European data find freshly formed stars rotate much faster than their predecessors.

They orbit the Milky Way at a distance of about 160,000 light-years and are visible from the Southern Hemisphere without a ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...