"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

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

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

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

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...