We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency ... which would be able to see through the dust in the Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and make a direct connection between ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.

Are we alone in space? ☄️ Are there other civilizations on other planets? The Milky Way, home to our Solar System, counts numerous planets and stars. ? Can there be life there? We've gathered a list ...

To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...

So, to understand how these streams formed, we need to study one with a stellar system associated with ... is why we studied it in detail." Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from ...

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...