At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

The film adaptations of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are epic and thrilling, but which is the most ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

Gaia has been moving in an orbit around the sun, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), 1.5 million kilometers outside the Earth's orbit. L2 follows the Earth around the sun and is the best observation ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

Gaia was preceded in the 1980s and the 1990s ... That’s before the sun and the Earth formed, right? That just kind of blows my mind, that before we were even here, in a very concrete sense ...

Without the ozone, Earth would be exposed to harmful ultraviolet ... including data from the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia mission. The census involved nearly 25,000 so-called ...

I'm Still Here is the first Brazilian film to win the Oscar for Best International Feature Film. Read more at ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...