Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

As astronomers peer through telescopes across the cosmos, dust clouds may distort the light from distant objects, altering observations.

Despite having recently officially ended its science operations in January, Gaia, one of the most prolific star explorers ...

For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ... TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in System of Two Exoplanets Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered two ...

One thing that Gaia does, by virtue of making this really great map, is: it creates kind of ... doesn't otherwise interact with anything in the universe, essentially—we’re trying to find ...