Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

Astronomers have utilized ESA's Gaia satellite to identify 87 stellar streams linked with globular clusters in the Milky Way, ...

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have detected 87 stellar streams associated with globular clusters (GCs) in our Milky ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, finding that galaxies ...

Mysterious glowing from the centre of our galaxy could be something even more outlandish (Picture: Getty) The heart of the ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peel back layers of our cosmic viewpoint: its latest discovery reveals that ...

Brian Cox debunks the 'alien probe' theory for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Learn the scientific truth about its ancient ...