Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

Our sun and the planets that circle it are part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its name comes from the Greek galaxias ...

Europe's Hera asteroid probe successfully launched from Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, embarking on a two-year journey to study the aftermath of NASA's DART mission, when a Nasa spacecraft ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

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 ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

What is our galaxy, the Milky Way, made of? Well, that is a really good question. I suppose the obvious answer, and it's right in part, is stars - some smaller than the sun and some bigger than ...

Astronomers have had a rare glimpse into the heart of the Milky Way thanks to an errant star expelled from the galactic centre. At the middle of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules ...