According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

at a spot called Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational forces of Earth and the sun, and the orbital motion of a ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

On Thursday, mission specialists at the European Space Agency sent Gaia, which is low on fuel, into orbit around the sun ... of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond.