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

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

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

The European satellite, launched in 2013, has exhausted its gas reserves and is preparing to return to a stable orbit before being 'passivated.' But while the data collection that revolutionized ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky ... the weeks ahead before Gaia is moved to its "retirement" orbit, and two massive data releases are tabled for around ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A* ... ever closer to the black hole and the size of its orbit diminished, but then stabilized.

Chocolate fans are delighted after discontinued chocolate bars have been spotted in a number of stores for a cheap price - ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of unprecedented data and discoveries.