̽»¨Ö±²¥European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down, after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel...
̽»¨Ö±²¥European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor...
̽»¨Ö±²¥European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission has released a new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy, including stellar DNA, asymmetric...
An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the Milky Way and a smaller object, dubbed ‘the...
̽»¨Ö±²¥first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one billion stars in the Milky Way, are being...
A new method of measuring the distances between stars enables astronomers to climb the ‘cosmic ladder’ and understand the processes at work in the...
A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, three-dimensional map of the Milky Way is celebrating its first completed year of observations...
̽»¨Ö±²¥Gaia satellite has discovered a unique binary system where one star is ‘eating’ the other, but neither star has any hydrogen, the most common...