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

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft will end its observations this week as it runs out of cold gas propellant. Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Gaia has therefore built the most precise map of the Milky Way to date, giving the ESA a detailed reconstructed view of our home galaxy ... A second phase of star formation was triggered ...

"We succeeded in obtaining high-resolution maps of the recombination ... billion years (our Milky Way galaxy is 13.6 billion years old, for context) already show signs of a star-formation burnout.

The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map ... Galaxy has been orbiting the Milky Way for billions of years. According to astronomers, the three known collisions between this dwarf galaxy and the Milky ...

It starred William Shatner as Captain Kirk, commander of the starship Enterprise, whose mission was to explore new worlds and civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. Leonard Nimoy played first ...

Another Star Trek game! In movies and online ... Our playground is a whole galaxy. Not just any galaxy, either, but the Milky Way is recreated here to a terrifying scale. It’s populated with ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared ... studying a binary star system 61 ...

This has enabled Gaia to deliver on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us our home galaxy like no other mission ... Gaia DR4 is set to expand its ...