The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

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Rare planetary alignment featuring Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars promises celestial splendour in the southern hemisphere's twilight skies.

Six or seven billion years ago, most stars formed in super star clusters. That type of star formation has largely died out ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

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A hidden structure that is 5000 degrees and moving was discovered inside the Earth's core. What do the past, present and ...