We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency ... which would be able to see through the dust in the Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and make a direct connection between ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.

This has enabled Gaia to deliver on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us ... from asteroids in our solar system backyard to galaxies and quasars ...

Are we alone in space? ☄️ Are there other civilizations on other planets? The Milky Way, home to our Solar System, counts numerous planets and stars. ? Can there be life there? We've gathered a list ...

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

However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky ... solar storms along the way ...