The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Samsung will unveil the next-generation Galaxy foldable devices at its Unpacked event in Brooklyn on July 9, with AI-powered ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head.

Ga­ia’s im­age of the Milky Way ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the most detailed catalog of our galaxy, using data from the Gaia mission launched ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the universe could soon come forth, thanks to a new way of interrogating ...

Since its launch in 2013 and positioning at the Lagrange L2 point, Gaia has revolutionized our understanding of the Milky Way. By studying nearly 2 billion stars, it has provided valuable data on ...

Our galaxy took shape more than 13 billion years ago, when clouds of cosmic dust collapsed from their own gravitational pull, and the resulting heat and pressure slowly transformed them into stars ...

Our surprising magnetic galaxy The first 3D map of magnetic fields in our galaxy explains star-forming regions Date: January 11, 2024 Source: University of Tokyo Summary: A team of astronomers has ...