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.

Gaia has transformed our understanding of the Milky Way by providing precise data on nearly 2 billion stars. This information includes stellar movements, luminosities, temperatures, and compositions, ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...