The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a strange rock studded with hundreds of small dark spheres. This unexpected find ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

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

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

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

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

When satellites re-enter and burn up, many of the metals on the satellites get oxidised, including aluminium. Small Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites like Starlink have aluminium in abundance, and they ...

White T-shirts get a lot of attention, but let’s not forget their equally versatile counterpart: the exceedingly wearable, deceptively simple black T ... a range of body shapes — plus, the ...