Best animation of our Milky Way galaxy The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft launched in 2013 and spent more than a decade measuring and mapping our home galaxy, the Milky

View larger. | This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years

Watch the dust shells of Wolf-Rayet 140 fade between 2022 and 2023. NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has taken incredible new images of the binary star’s dusty rings. Video via Joseph

A survey of 1,055 scientists, including 521 astrobiologists, found that 86.6% believe basic extraterrestrial life likely exists. Agreement among non-astrobiologists was similar. Scientists cite the abundance of habitable environments in