By examining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia space probe, which were gathered from 2021 to 2022, the team ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

Since 2013, the ESA (European Space Agency) has operated the Gaia space mission to construct maps of the Milky Way. The eleven-year mission enabled Gaia to establish the precise positioning, motion ...

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

Astronomers have spotted a zombie star, SGR 0501+4516, speeding through the Milky Way. This magnetar has an incredibly strong ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.