If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

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

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

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

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

Most of the atoms in your body likely spent millions of years circling the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt" before returning to our galaxy prior to the solar system's creation, a new study ...