After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

Its proximity to the supernova remnant HB9 once suggested a supernova birth. However, with only 80 arcminutes separating them ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

"Interstellar dust — tiny solid particles scattered across the galaxy — acts like a cosmic fog ... and spectroscopic data from the European Gaia space observatory, creating a dynamic 3D map that ...

NASA and ESA officially retire the Gaia space telescope after 11 years of mapping the Milky Way, but its data will shape astronomy for decades.

It has the look and feel of a tabletop board game, shuttling you about locations on a galactic map where there are cyborg misfits to talk to and freelance gigs to pick up. But this is not a staid ...

Helldivers 2 players started dropping into zones around the Sevrin Sector, the area of the galactic map where Malevelon Creek lies, to form a defensive line of planets. Four planets — Vandalon ...

The spacecraft, which has been creating a highly detailed three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars throughout ... of where the Solar System is located within the galactic disc. Previous Gaia ...

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

Gaia looks a bit like a spinning top hat in space. Its main mission was to produce a detailed, three-dimensional map of our galaxy, the Milky Way. To do this, it measured the precise positions and ...