The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia mission has been mapping the Milky Way since 2014, measuring the precise positions and distances from Earth of nearly two billion stars. The first two ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Stars pepper Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighboring galaxies in this image based on the measurement of nearly 1.7 billion stars.

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

The Milky Way just got a little more crowded. The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has mapped more than a billion stars in the galaxy with unprecedented accuracy and detail — and it has ...

Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars in the mission’s first two years of taking data.

ESA’s Gaia is on a mission to create the most accurate 3D map of the Milky Way to date. Illustration: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Start Slideshow The European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory has just ...

The Gaia-ESO Survey: radial metallicity gradients and age-metallicity relation of stars in the Milky Way disk. Astronomy and Astrophysics , January 2014 Cite This Page : ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

Astronomers observing a short-lived evolutionary phase of dying stars have concluded that parts of the Milky Way are much older than previously thought. Using data from the Gaia mission, a team of ...

With the third data release of the European Space Agency's Gaia space mission, astronomers gained access to improved measurements for 1.8 billion stars, which provides a vast amount of data for ...

GAIA's all-sky view shows the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies. ESA/Gaia/DPAC. The European Space Agency just released a new catalog, but it's not full of the latest fashions.