The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

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

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

The Lagrange L2 point is a position in space where the gravitational forces of the Earth and the Sun balance ... allowing scientists to reconstruct the history and structure of our galaxy. The mission ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets ... a planet whose size is between Earth’s and Neptune’s.

The Andromeda Galaxy is hurtling towards us at an incredible speed of 250,000 miles per hour! That’s fast enough to cover the distance between the Earth ... with the Milky Way, resulting in ...