Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

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 ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

(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 ...

Gaia’s goal was to create a 3D map of our entire galaxy, and so far it has revealed the structure of the Milky Way in the greatest detail ever obtained. It has uncovered evidence that our galaxy ...

A team of astronomers has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date and tracked dark ... Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics who is chair of the DESI Milky Way Survey Working Group.

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia created the most detailed 3D ...

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 ...