Eutelsat has commissioned Airbus for 340 satellites to bolster its OneWeb low-Earth-orbit network. Meanwhile, India's rocket ...

The discovery reinforces established theories about space. There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers. As many as ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and simulations is forcing astronomers to admit that many of those origin ...

Scientists measure a Saturn-sized rogue planet drifting through the Milky Way using rare Earth and space observations, revealing how planets can be ejected from their original systems.

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...