The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making ...

Even if the specific monthly peak of the cycle has passed, it doesn't mean solar activity is over. Strong solar activity ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team won the 2024 Collier Trophy for boldly venturing into the Sun’s atmosphere. With revolutionary ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

WR 104 is notable not just for the rarity of Wolf-Rayet stars in the galaxy, but also for the spiral shape its escaping dust ...

New observations have revealed early signs of UV light illuminating the cosmos more than 13 billion years ago.

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down ...

The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...