The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over ... which covers an area of the sky equivalent to 8,600 full moons (as seen from Earth). For context, it contains ...

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 European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 trillion observations of about 2 billion stars and other objects over the ...

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

In their study published Thursday in the journal Science, they showed that by measuring the distance between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional ...

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

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

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

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