Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

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

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 ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

The Laser Guide Star (LGS) is launched from the VLT’s 8.2-meter Yepun Telescope and aims at the center of our galaxy, in the heart of the brightest part of the Milky Way. The laser beam ... (The ...

working to reveal our Galaxy’s present-day structure and unravel its evolutionary history. The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to map the position and motion of around 1.8 billion stars has ...

The fountains will dance to music with interactive lighting and water reaching ... degrees “making you feel like you’re caught within the Milky Way, riding on constellations through the galaxy.” It’s ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...