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 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 ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

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

Gaia data has revealed a plethora of intriguing objects in our galaxy; in April 2024, scientists revealed the heaviest stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way, just 2,000 light-years from Earth.

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

Throughout its operational lifetime, Gaia studied almost 2 billion stars and other objects in and around the Milky Way. This vast stellar census contains details of star motions, luminosities ...

Gaia has also discovered a new breed of black hole, including one with a mass of nearly ... time a black hole of stellar origin this big has been spotted within the Milky Way.

Thanks to the latest Gaia satellite catalog from the European ... has achieved the most accurate measurement of the mass of the Milky Way. This study opens important questions in cosmology ...

The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky Way since its launch in December 2013 to create a ‘huge stellar ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar ... Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia catalog ...