Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

But the Local Group will never make it there, Mihos said, because the expansion of the universe is pulling the Milky Way away faster than the gravitational pull of the Virgo Cluster is drawing it in.

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NASA and ESA officially retire the Gaia space telescope after 11 years of mapping the Milky Way, but its data will shape astronomy for decades.

The Milky Way's supermassive black hole ... The newly discovered black hole vent adds further fuel to this theory, drawing a relatively straight line from the black hole to the base of the ...

Until June 6, OREO also rolls out its very first experience to bring the Milky Way Dunk into the hands of the consumers. They can experience dunking OREO cookies into the Milky Way virtually, ...