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

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

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar Gaia has transformed the way scientists understand the universe, and its data has become a reference point for many other telescopes on the ground and in space.

The rotating model, which does not break any known law of physics, suggests the universe could spin around once every 500 billion years. This would be far too slowly to detect easily, but enough to ...

Gaia has been peering into the universe from a stable orbit 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth called the second Lagrange point. But the neighborhood has been getting more crowded ...

which is of course the fastest thing in our universe. BENHAM: And does it make a difference? Does it make it easier or harder to find these black holes with Gaia based on their distance from us?

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 ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...