The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over ... which covers an area of the sky equivalent to 8,600 full moons (as seen from Earth). For context, it contains ...

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

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

The Gaia space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in December 2013 with the aim of creating a detailed three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy, has observed about 2 ...