A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

In the center of the Milky Way, the conditions are actually ideal for the formation of stars. Now there is a clue as to why ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...

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