ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Pettit is now in the midst of his third stint on the International Space Station, and the decade he had to prepare for his ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...