"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

This information has enabled the creation of the most detailed 3D map of our galaxy ... it is ideal for space telescopes like Gaia, as it offers an unobstructed view of the Universe without ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of unprecedented data and discoveries.

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come ... The aim is to build the largest and most precise 3D map of our local universe. The spacecraft's first data release dropped on Sept.

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

It has also created the largest three-dimensional map of about 1.3 million quasars, with the furthest shining bright when the universe was only 1.5 billion years old. Gaia has also discovered a ...