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̽»¨Ö±²¥European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission has released a new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy, including stellar DNA, asymmetric motions, strange ‘starquakes’, and other fascinating insights.

Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three state-of-the-art simulations to back up results from a large sky survey, researchers from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have resolved a 20-year long debate on the formation of stars. 

Cosmic dawn, when stars formed for the first time, occurred 250 million to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, according to a new study led by researchers from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and ̽»¨Ö±²¥ College London (UCL). 

An international team of astronomers, led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, announced the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars in a huge swathe of our Milky Way galaxy.

A unique stage of planetary system evolution has been imaged by astronomers, showing fast-moving carbon monoxide gas flowing away from a star system over 400 light years away, a discovery that provides an opportunity to study how our own solar system developed.

̽»¨Ö±²¥most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet formation and has implications for the search for water in the solar system and beyond.

Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets have been detected in such a young system. 

Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist. 

An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the Milky Way and a smaller object, dubbed ‘the Sausage galaxy’. ̽»¨Ö±²¥cosmic crash was a defining event in the early history of the Milky Way and reshaped the structure of our galaxy, fashioning both the galaxy’s inner bulge and its outer halo, the astronomers report in a series of new papers.

An international team of researchers have identified ‘fingerprints’ of multiple metals in one of the least dense exoplanets ever found.