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.

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

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.

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, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century.

The Milky Way’s halo of stars as seen by Gaia (left), and how it would look if a merger happened in the ancient past. Image: Halo stars: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, T Donlon et al. 2024; Background Milky Way ...

Astronomers using the Gaia space telescope have located two ancient streams of stars that helped the Milky Way galaxy grow and evolve more than 12 billion years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.

Gaia, the Milky Way's cartographer By Vahé Ter Minassian Published on July 23, 2022, at 10:00 pm (Paris), updated on July 23, 2022, at 10:00 pm. 10 min read Lire en français. Subscribers only.

Ga­ia’s im­age of the Milky Way ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the most detailed catalog of our galaxy, using data from the Gaia mission launched ...

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way.But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated.

Large-scale map (330,000 light years side length) of the density of the 217 million stars from the Gaia DR3 XP sample in Galactocentric Cartesian co-ordinates.