The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

The Hubble Telescope recently used these stars to determine the distance to a galaxy in the Virgo cluster, 56 million light-years from Earth ... seen in this way. With this new information and cutting ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky ... way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth.

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

The lab released a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is located around 60 million light-years away from Earth. In the image ...