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The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

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

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

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

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

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia catalog (eDR3). The upper part shows a region where the Palomar 5 star cluster and its tidal tails are observed (DESI Legacy Imaging ...