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

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission, set to launch in February 2025, will utilize an advanced infrared telescope to map the entire sky in ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

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The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

Along this direction, a supernova from a runaway star is shown with a bright blob which explains the absorption by the very hot gas. Credit: Arunima V Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating ...