ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

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Experts say dark skies will be a big tourism draw for 2025 — and Utah's way ahead of the game.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.