After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

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

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 ...

Languages: English. Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The unexpected discovery came ...

Astronomers have discovered a new giant molecular cloud (GMC) in the Milky Way, a finding that has expanded our understanding ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

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They have now hit upon a jackpot as they detected oxygen in a new world. However, this world is not in our Solar System, in fact, its outside our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have detected oxygen in ...

She defended director Ashok's choice and said that the 'milky beauty' tag is not something to be ashamed ... But if we look at ourselves in a certain way, then nobody can respect us." Adding further, ...