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Stars group together to form a bright band in the middle of the image, Gaia's first map of the sky

Space

Gaia鈥檚 map of 1 billion stars is the clearest view of our galaxy

The first data released from the European Space Agency鈥檚 star mapping space telescope will transform astronomy forever, expanding our view 1000-fold

A black hole

Physics

First glimpse of a black hole being born from a star鈥檚 remains

Space

CSI Eta Carinae: Clouds suggest odd star’s history of violence

Life

Proxima b鈥檚 star could be blasting away the planet鈥檚 atmosphere

Galaxies

Space

Ghost galaxy is 99.99 per cent dark matter with almost no stars

The galaxy M82

Space

Hyperactive galaxy could run out of gas in just 8 million years

Red star surrounded by ordinary white stars. V838 Monocerotis, another red nova which erupted in 2002

Space

Mating stars hide their modesty behind a thick veil of dust

Space

The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

Space

Small gas cloud caught blowing a huge bubble in the Milky Way

artist's impression of planets around a red dwarf star

Space

Old planets always get too hot or cold for life in the end

Searching for alien life on planets orbiting older stars may be fruitless - they nearly always lose their liquid water with time

Space

Cosmological conceits blossom under Finland’s midnight sun

Space

Baby star illuminates icy wall between rocky planets and giants

Space

Impossible vanishing stars could be signs of advanced alien life

Space

Milky Way obscured by light pollution for a third of the world