After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft will 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 ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Spiral galaxy J2345−0449, 947 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Aquarius, is a very unusual object ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Nadeen Sabha,University Innsbruck is the first astrophysicist in Austria to lead a research project at the new James Webb ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

Four small rocky planets confirmed orbiting nearby ... to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ingredient for life.

A comparison between J2345-0449 and our much small galaxy the Milky Way | Credit ... unlike the ordinary matter that composes stars, planets, moons, our bodies, and everything we see around ...