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

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

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Rachel Reeves will pledge to "fight" for "growth" and say that Britain "can do so much better" in a major speech, after ...

Discover the fastest jet-stream winds on exoplanet WASP-127b, reaching 33,000 km per hour, driven by intense stellar ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its ...

A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...

This is a manifesto disguised as a novel and makes no secret of its intent. The characters feel undifferentiated like ...

A new study claims it is possible an "alien visitor" could have warped our solar system during its earliest years.

The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies, while others will focus on exploration to ...