The European Space Agency launched the Gaia mission in 2013. The mission's overall goal was to discover the history of…
Modern professional astronomers aren't much like astronomers of old. They don't spend every suitable evening with their eyes glued to…
The Milky Way has a number of satellite galaxies; nearly 60 of them, depedending on how we define them. One…
Using data from the second Gaia data release, a team of astronomers has demonstrated that the "warp" in our galaxy…
A new study presented at the 235th meeting of the AAS this week shows how star formation is already happening…
The ESA's Gaia mission recently allowed astronomers to catch a glimpse of Europa as it passed in front of a…
In the very early days of our Universe, just over 13 billion years ago, there was very little structure. There…
The latest discovery to come from Gaia's years of observing the Milky Way is the first 3D measurements of our…
New research using some of the latest Gaia mission data has revealed what happens to stars like our Sun once…
How in the world could you possibly look inside a star? You could break out the scalpels and other tools…