Illustration of the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory mapping the Milky Way. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier Since its launch in 2013 and positioning at the Lagrange ...

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.

Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from Earth. While globular clusters like Palomar 5 are typically dense, spherical ...

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 ...

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

The Gaia space observatory orbits the so-called Lagrange 2 (L2) point, approximately 1.5 million kilometres away from the Earth where gravitational forces between the Earth and Sun are balanced ...

Previously, these had been difficult to identify, but with the Gaia space observatory's data having mapped the Milky Way with ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

The Gaia space observatory orbits the so-called Lagrange 2 (L2) point, approximately 1.5 million kilometres away from the Earth where gravitational forces between the Earth and Sun are balanced ...

The bright star that sits just at the edge of the prominent bluish galaxy is only 3,230 light-years away, as measured by ESA's Gaia space observatory. Behind this star is a galaxy named LEDA 803211.