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The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...