Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

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

It's this latter property that led to the discovery of the giant exoplanet Gaia-4b. It orbits a star 244 light-years away and is a super-sized gas giant with a mass 11.8 times greater than that of ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

A giant illuminated sculpture of the sun is to go on display at a cathedral. Liverpool Cathedral said it was "thrilled" to be ...

On Sunday, the final day of the exhibition, a short film will be on display at 19:00 GMT about the history of the cathedral, ...

Gaia was preceded in the 1980s and the 1990s ... which are the cores of active galaxies—basically giant supermassive black holes that are feeding on matter and burping out lots of light and ...

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 ...

Caption MFM simulation of the canonical Moon-Forming giant impact. Here different colors trace different components of Gaia and Theia. The lower mantle of Gaia, denoted by the dashed circle with a ...

For example, ESA's Hipparcos satellite, "surveyed some 118,000 stars almost 30 years ago,” Brown added, so Gaia marks a giant leap forward for this kind of work. Astronomers will use the new map ...