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On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

The sun wanders the Milky Way alone; our star orbits the galaxy’s distant center without any stellar siblings. The solar ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of planet wandering through the Milky Way without a host star. Roughly the mass of ...

Astronomers have weighed a lonely planet drifting through the Milky Way, using a rare cosmic alignment. How this exiled world ...

A USF professor and research team are using two NASA grants and the Hubble Space Telescope to test the mathematical model of ...

A seemingly impossible cluster of more than 30 galaxies crammed into a volume just 500,000 light-years across has been found ...

This is a clear picture of the moon taken with a long zoom lens with the milky way in the background The supermoon kicks off ...

Witnessing the Milky Way is a profound experience. This article highlights ten premier global locations for stargazing. From ...