We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

With new images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by ... an array of rapidly spinning neutron stars spread across the galaxy — show this "gravitational wave background" may be louder than ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.