The European Space Agency (ESA) has taken a "galactic census" of the Milky Way, unveiling the second major data release from the Gaia mission. Along with some stars further afield, the data release ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Europe's star-mapping spacecraft, Gaia, streaks across the Milky Way in a new image captured by a ...

The most comprehensive picture of the Milky Way galaxy just got even more detailed, as ESA’s Gaia mission has unveiled its third data release. The new dataset updates information on almost two billion ...

Since its launch in 2013, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space satellite has been taking photographs of our galaxy while going around the sun. Covering more than 1.5 million km (almost a ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft will create a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, revealing information about its composition, formation and evolution. The mission will measure the ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of the cosmic woods. Reading time 3 minutes The European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

ESO's VST helps determine the spacecraft's orbit to enable the most accurate map ever of more than a billion stars Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA, surveys the sky from orbit to ...

Starstruck: A collage of four different Gaia maps: the speed at which stars move towards or away from us (top left); 3D motions of stars (bottom left); interstellar dust (top right); and star ...