The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

Since then, astronomers have discovered that at least 70% of all stars in the Milky Way are this type of star, which is why ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...

The Milky Way-mapper Gaia telescope is being switched off today. The European Space Agency (ESA) said on March 27 that Gaia's ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

Related: Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping For example, the team needed to move the probe from its science orbit at the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 2 ...