ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

NASA's SPHEREx mission, set to launch in February 2025, will utilize an advanced infrared telescope to map the entire sky in ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way ... massive stars falling below Hubble's sensitivity limit. Video tour of Hubble’s panoramic view ...

In a nutshell A rare cosmic alignment has given astronomers an unprecedented view of two galaxies from 7 billion years ago, ...

It is a panoramic ... stars and unusual features like coherent streams of stars, researchers say. This implies it has a more active recent star formation and interaction history than the Milky Way.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head. After more than a ...

Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last ... and most precise 3D map of our local universe.

An artist's impression of the Milky Way ... billion stars and other objects in our galaxy. The result of the spacecraft’s endeavors is nothing less than the largest, most precise map of our ...

(Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute) Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic ... of stars, say researchers. This implies it has a more active recent ...

This panorama ... stars and unusual features like coherent streams of stars, say researchers. This implies it has a more active recent star-formation and interaction history than the Milky Way.