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

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it appears? Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The Euclid space telescope has spotted 26 million galaxies in just one week of observations. The European Space Agency (ESA) ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Although the telescope is just getting started on its mission, it has already delivered some impressive snapshots of the dark ...

Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

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