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

How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia created the most detailed 3D ...

A team of scientists used AI and high-res imaging to chart the most detailed map of a human ... and almost never recur in the same way twice, and start looking at the common machinery inside of cells ...

How new dark matter could solve mystery about Milky Way - Telescopes have detected a mysterious glow of gamma rays ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...

Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion ... "This allows JWST to map large areas of the sky, which is essential for discovering massive galaxies, as they ...

Summary: Scientists have created the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date ... stated that it would be “[impossible] to create an exact wiring diagram for a cubic millimeter of ...

The new image of a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud combines data from different wavelengths to provide this highly-detailed photo ... section of the Milky Way.