The Gaia star surveyor has identified strange behavior in a group of stars rushing to escape their birthplace, unlike any ...

After 11 years of operations — nearly double its expected lifetime — Gaia ran out of fuel, prompting its operators at ESA to power down and retire the spacecraft. Since it launched in December ...

Scientists found a fast-scattering star cluster called Ophion. Unlike usual clusters, it shows chaotic motion and breaks ...

A huge family of newborn stars seem to now be going their separate ways: Over 1,000 stars are hurriedly fleeing their nest in ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC / Stefan Payne-Wardenaar illustration Astronomers poring through a now-retired space telescope's data have spotted a bizarre family of fledgling stars breaking all the ...

This is a map of the entire sky, captured by ESA's Gaia mission. Overlaid as yellow dots are the locations of over 1000 young stars; these stars make up the newly discovered Ophion family in the ...

Using years’ worth of data from the ESA’s Gaia satellite, the release contains a huge amount of data about the position, movement, and brightness of over one billion stars. The motion of ...

"Switching off a spacecraft at the end of its mission sounds like a simple enough job," said Gaia spacecraft operator Tiago Nogueira in an ESA statement. "But spacecraft really don’t want to be ...

ESA's Gaia telescope identified the two threads of stars as 'Shakti' and 'Shiva'. The two threads of stars began to weave together billions of years ago, forming the Milky Way we know today.

due to the immense volume and high quality of spectroscopic observations needed to make it work," adds ESA Gaia Project Scientist Johannes Sahlmann. "It's still pretty new to be able to reliably ...