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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

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

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

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

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

These stellar streams were hard to detect in the past, but with the help of Gaia, a space observatory mapping the Milky Way with incredible precision, astronomers are now discovering more of them.

This has enabled Gaia to deliver on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us our home galaxy like no other mission has done before. As such, we now also ...

The Gaia space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in December 2013 with the aim of creating a detailed three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy, has observed about 2 ...

By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...

This has enabled Gaia to deliver on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us our home galaxy like no other mission has done before. As such, we now also ...

Previously, these had been difficult to identify, but with the Gaia space observatory's data having mapped the Milky Way with high precision in three dimensions, more of these streams have been ...