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

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

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

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

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

In their study published Thursday in the journal Science, they showed that by measuring the distance between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...