The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Earth’s beautiful northern and southern lights are the result of auroras: when high-energy charged particles from the sun hit ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

Elon Musk faces a conflict of interest in supporting a space telescope helpful to SpaceX but attacking programs that benefit ...

The Euclid space telescope has spotted 26 million galaxies in just one week of observations. The European Space Agency (ESA) ...

The European Space Agency’s “dark universe detective” discovered millions of new galaxies and offers potential clues about ...

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which astronomers have already used to find hundreds of strong gravitational lenses ...