In March 2025, the Gaia mission stopped collecting data from space. The influence of this mission is huge, especially in studying the Milky Way Galaxy, according to Earth.com. The insights provided by ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of billions of stars. Our pioneering stargazer has reshaped our view of the skies ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map ever made of stellar nurseries in our Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered that the iconic Pleiades cluster, long admired as the “Seven Sisters,” is only a small part of a ...

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Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to ...

Leaders in data space technology are converging at the Gaia-X Summit, in Porto November 20-21, to address the imperative of interoperability within and across data spaces in the construction and real ...

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/01/The_best_Milky_Way_animation_by_Gaia This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data ...