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

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.

Using Europe's Gaia space telescope, astronomers have identified 55 runaway stars being ejected at high speeds from a densely ...

Gaia is a space telescope onboard a satellite that has orbited the sun for 11 years. With the help of astrometry, which is a technique to measure the positions, distances and movements of stars ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a plane in the sky while ground-based telescopes meanwhile track how light ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

They traced the speedy stars' trajectories, using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, as a way of ...

Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...

“Gaia is more than living up to its promise ... Jason Wright (The Pennsylvania State University). The WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope is a partnership between Indiana University, University of ...

A European Space Agency (ESA) telescope has discovered two ancient 'threads' of stars that wove together to form our home - the Milky Way. ESA's Gaia telescope identified the two threads of stars ...