The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

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

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

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 ...

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

He’s here to tell us why the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft is so important—and why, even though the Gaia mission is technically coming to a close, its scientific legacy is only ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...