There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

Scientists at the Simulation and Data Lab Astronomy and Astrophysics at Forschungszentrum Jülich have carried out more than 3,000 computer simulations to find the cause of the unusual orbits of ...

There are multiple orbits coexisting in our universe. The Earth orbits the Sun within the Solar System. Our Solar System is part of the Milky Way galaxy, which itself orbits a huge black hole at ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and spanning a decade ... in the universe and happens to be the most important stellar island near our Milky Way, said the independent space ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.