After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

It drives the movements of stars and galaxies, but dark matter is invisible. While it remains a colossal mystery, a study ...

There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of ...

For Marcela Carena, her life’s work started as a little girl on the Pampas of Argentina, looking up at the Milky Way.. Her ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

Discovered through the keen eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope, this galaxy traveled across eons to deliver a message: ...

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...