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

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Milky Way is an arcade game where you have to avoid intergalactic dangers by dodging asteroids and other obstacles to get to ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

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

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers ...