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

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

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

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

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

Back in the 19 nineties, astronomers started to see growing evidence that the universe was accelerating. We thought gravity would slow things down so I could throw up *** ball. Gravity is gonna ...

(CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat.

The Radcliffe wave. The clouds that comprise this structure are highlighted in red and superimposed on an artist’s illustration of the Milky Way. The location of the Sun is highlighted by the yellow ...

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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 ...

Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. Nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of our nearest galactic ...

For comparison, the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way has about 4 million solar masses. Elsewhere in the universe, there are supermassive black holes with billions of times more mass than ...