The Gaia space telescope has created the largest 3D map of the Milky Way, measuring distances and luminosities for up to 2 billion stars. After 11 years in space, Gaia ceased operations on January ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Astronomers have performed a multiwavelength study of nine open cluster candidates. As a result, they found that all of them ...

The planet is the fourth world to be spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, which was designed to map a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, cataloguing their masses ...

Its sky-scanning mission came to an end last month (January 15) after mapping the Milky Way for more than 10 years. The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions ...

changing our preconceived notions about the Milky Way’s structure. From a distance, a star orbiting a black hole will appear to be orbiting empty space. While ground-based telescopes monitor how the ...

Sloan produced the first digital map covering more than ... was a dwarf galaxy now known as Gaia Enceladus, which was shredded and devoured by the Milky Way and whose stars now glimmer in the ...

Since its 2013 launch, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been constructing the largest and most detailed three-dimensional map of our Milky Way, charting the positions and movements of over two billion ...