ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

Originally named Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, Gaia was conceived with the aim of mapping the cosmos, ...

Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Gaia has collected data on billions of stars for more than ten years and will take years to analyze. It will be switched off ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope ...

A mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years dubbed FRB ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...