The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...

100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help. If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when ...

Scientists discover 2 stars dancing around the Milky Way's black hole — and they could point to a type of planet never seen before —Baby stars that defy explanation are 'swarming like bees ...

Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia catalog (eDR3). The upper part shows a region where the Palomar 5 star cluster and its tidal tails are observed (DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, ...