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

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

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

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

Gaia DR3 has provided detailed information on over 33 million objects, including stars, galaxies, and quasars, significantly enhancing our understanding of the Milky Way and beyond[1]. The data ...

Professor James Binney, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, has been awarded the Royal ...

The data from Gaia DR3 is expected to provide unprecedented insights into the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way and beyond, making it a crucial tool for astronomers[2]. Another exciting ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...