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

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

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

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

NGC 2566: The galaxy filling the frame in this James Webb Space Telescope image is NGC 2566, a spiral galaxy in the ...

Gravity stretches out forever, but it’s not very strong. If protons and neutrons had to hang on to each other with gravity, ...

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

Originally named Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, Gaia was conceived with the aim of mapping the cosmos, ...

Herbig-Haro 49/50, aka the 'Cosmic Tornado', as seen by Spitzer in January 2006. The source of the 'tornado', a Class 1 ...

Hinks Elementary students listened to a special presentation about outer space from Rodney Bisher inside STARLAB, an ...