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

We’ve even covered the “correct” way to eat a Jaffa Cake and why Yorkies are so chunky. But given how many chocolate bars’ brands are space-themed ― Mars, Galaxy, and Milky Way ...

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...

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.

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 ...

What they found revealed a population of dwarf galaxies that are quite unlike the ones circling the Milky Way. Some 2.5 million light-years away, these space neighborhoods formed the bulk of their ...