When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

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

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

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

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

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy ... dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, tracked 150,000 asteroids and ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

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