That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

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

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 ...

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

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

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...

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