Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Located about 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy home to active star ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

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

After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered ... motion and properties of ...

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black ... "both in our galaxy and beyond." ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.