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

ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

enabled the team to chart extinction curves across a depth of 16,000 light years, revealing dramatic regional variations and significantly expanding the map's breadth and depth. "This map has opened a ...

The European Space Agency is releasing the most detailed star chart yet for the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies. The data released Wednesday include high-precision measurements of almost 1.7 ...

At the start of March, Mercury and Venus lay in the west after sunset. Now both have passed between us and the Sun into the ...

"For the first time, we can see the Milky Way's dust 'fingerprints' in full dimensionality ... enabled the team to chart extinction curves across a depth of 16,000 light years, revealing dramatic ...

After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...

Whitewall tires were the height of automotive fashion in the 1950s, but have fallen out of favor in the intervening decades.

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope show the first steps ...

which clouds the cosmos between our world and just about everything else in the Milky Way. The 3D map indicates where the cloud most muddies the waters of the cosmos, as well as charts the regions ...