Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

The researchers found this secretive black hole by using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, a satellite that has tracked more than a billion stars throughout the Milky Way with ...

of the Milky Way's warped shape ... It also mapped millions of galaxies, and tracked hundreds of thousands of asteroids and comets. "I think it already outperformed what we had expected," said ...

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.

Just as the Milky Way is much more massive than the Large ... from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory that has tracked more than a billion stars in our galaxy with unprecedented ...

ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

After more than ten years in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially said goodbye to its Gaia spacecraft. On 27 ...

The discovery of the galaxy gives astronomers a useful comparative tool for studying satellite galaxies on the outskirts of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The team’s findings were published this ...

The telescope also spotted more than 50 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. Inside the galaxy, it tracked down 150,000 asteroids and detected several dozen black holes. On Thursday, ESA ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy, Xinhua News reported Friday. The breakthrough will play a crucial ...