The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia is leaving behind a legacy of stunning discoveries that changed what we know about the universe. John Yang reports. Finally this ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Distant quasars may hold the key to spotting elusive gravitational waves—and revealing hidden dimensions of the universe.

Gaia's star catalog has also been used to clock the expansion rate of the universe, fueling the ongoing debate over why the expansion seems to be occurring faster than astronomers expected.

Departing from traditional scholarly views, Lovelock collaborated with American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s to develop a new perspective called the Gaia hypothesis. This idea ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A group of over 1000 young stars, named Ophion, has been identified using Gaia data. Unlike typical large star families that disperse gradually and cohesively ...

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance. The spacecraft, which has been creating a highly detailed three ...

Astrophysicist Jeremy Darling from the University of Colorado Boulder is on a quest to find a new way of measuring the ...

The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia is leaving behind a legacy of stunning discoveries that changed what we know about the universe. John Yang reports. After more ...