Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

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

Three-dimensional maps of the interstellar dust extinction curve within the Milky Way galaxy. Science , 2025; 387 (6739): 1209 DOI: 10.1126/science.ado9787 Cite This Page : ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

The map reveals strong correlations between dust properties, star formation, and the structure of the Milky Way. Zhang noted that the map also challenges previous assumptions about intermediate ...

The results allowed the astronomers to reconstruct the first detailed, three-dimensional map of the extinction curve of dust in the Milky Way. This map was made possible by Zhang and Green's ...

Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way, offering insights into the composition of our home galaxy and how it evolved, formed and is structured. Unlike the James ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Beijing, March 14 (IANS) An international of team astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way. This ...