After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home – a family ...

And within Ophion, they found newly formed stars dispersing in "record time." Rapid pace aside, these stars are strange ...

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has meticulously mapped nearly two billion stars, revolutionizing what we know about the structure, history, and motion of the Milky Way. On March 27, 2025 ...

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

"Ophion is filled with stars that are set to rush out across the galaxy in a totally haphazard, uncoordinated way, which is ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to ...

In its quest to chart the evolution of the universe, ESA’s space telescope has already amassed a massive catalog of galaxies ...

Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...

Data from Europe's Gaia spacecraft have revealed that a cluster of 1,000 stars is breaking up much faster than is normal, ...