We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

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

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

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

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

In their study published Thursday in the journal Science, they showed that by measuring the distance between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional ...

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

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

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

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...