The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...
Planets outside our solar system can be wild, weird places. Astronomers have discovered exoplanets shaped like a rugby ball, or where it rains gems, or which have one hemisphere covered in lava. And ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
Founded a little less than three years ago, K2 seeks to disrupt the production of large satellites by focusing on vertical ...
The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope reveal GJ 1214 b, a unique exoplanet with a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere, ...
The operation removed a tumour from the cavernous sinus, a difficult-to-reach space beneath the brain and behind the eyes.
The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different ...
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...