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

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

But a telescope reveals subtle structures within and outside the Milky Way that show how our own galaxy and others formed ... from 200 billion to 2 trillion. Dwarf galaxies may contain less ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.

to finding evidence for an ongoing collision with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy today, Gaia is rewriting the Milky Way's history and making predictions about its future. In the process of scanning ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be ...

the researchers said it appears this white dwarf is not making a death plunge but rather has stabilized its orbit around the black hole. The galaxy is located about 270 million light-years from Earth.

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON -- Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf - a ...