ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to ...

Connie Francis, whose hit songs included 'Who's Sorry Now?' and 'Pretty Little Baby,' dies at 87 Exclusive: Brazil’s ...

ESA/Gaia/DPAC. Our galactic neighbor, the Large Magellanic Cloud, has yielded one of the most stunning Gaia images so far (above, right), showing off the capabilities of the billion-dollar satellite.

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

The Gaia spacecraft has unearthed a new treasure trove of secrets about our galaxy — and beyond. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission plans to produce the largest, most precise 3D map of the ...

ESA has published a colossal data release from the agency’s Gaia observatory, which is currently engaged in a mission to survey 1 billion stars orbiting in the Milky Way.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia satellite continues to reap superlatives with today’s second big data drop --- a galactic high precision catalog of nearly 1.7 billion stars collected ...

ESA has taken a “galactic census” of the Milky Way, unveiling the second major data release from the Gaia mission. The data release provides the most detailed map of our home galaxy, which ...

ESA said that Gaia suffered first a puncture from a fast-moving micrometeoroid, then an electronics malfunction. Due to these issues, the telescope began sending its Earthbound operators gigabytes ...

ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. The new data release fills in some gaps from previous releases, particularly in areas of the sky that are densely packed with stars — such as the Omega Centauri ...

Overall, the ESA says that Gaia has uncovered the existence of 526,587 new stars within the Omega Centauri region. There are at least nine crowded regions in the area, ...