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

"Dust serves as the building material for planets like Earth and plays a catalytic role in the Milky Way's chemical evolution. The newly released 3D map opens a new window for the study of dust and ...

to construct the most detailed 3D map yet of the properties of dust in the Milky Way galaxy. Zhang and Green turned to data from ESA's Gaia mission, which was a 10.5-year-effort to obtain ...

They have already set out to test their hypothesis with future observations. The results reported here have been published as Xiangyu Zhang and Gregory M. Green, “Three-dimensional maps of the ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with ...

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