The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

The Virgin Galactic carrier aircraft, or “mothership”, takes off with the smaller spaceship tucked beneath it and ascends to an altitude of about 15km. The spaceship is then released ...

UPDATE 3.30pm UK: Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has announced that the game's Galactic War has now been unpaused. "The Galactic War has resumed!" a message posted to THE Helldivers 2 Discord ...

Virgin Galactic’s newest spacecraft is one step closer to the cosmos. The space company, founded by Richard Branson back in 2004, plans to have its revamped Delta spacecraft undergo its first ...

Credit: Virgin Galactic HOUSTON — Virgin Galactic plans to start assembling the first of a new generation of suborbital spaceplanes next month with commercial flights expected to start in the ...