The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

The Sun is one of a couple hundred billion stars within the Milky Way Galaxy ... to learn the geography of the local universe is that it is 3-D. A map, as a 2-D object, is easy to spread out ...