We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

This has enabled Gaia to deliver on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way ... the warp of the disc, the detailed structure of spiral arms, and interstellar dust ...

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are massive, with plasma jets powered by supermassive black holes at their centers, stretching ...

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 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 mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service. This spacecraft, dedicated to mapping the Milky Way, has exhausted ...

Brunier Since its launch in 2013 and positioning at the Lagrange L2 point, Gaia has revolutionized our understanding of the Milky Way. By studying nearly 2 billion stars, it has provided valuable data ...

The National Hydrography Dataset Plus High Resolution map of waterways, created by the US Geological Survey, is the highest-resolution survey of its kind. With nearly 25 million rivers, streams, pipe ...

Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of ...

ESA is working on the GaiaNIR mission, an infrared version of Gaia which would be able to see through the dust in the Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and make a direct connection between ...

The Webb Telescope provides a detailed view of carbon dust production in the binary star system ... Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a stellar duo just 5,000 ...