In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

This map of the Milky Way is unprecedentedly detailed, showing individual stars dust clouds. Created by the ESA's Gaia program, it arrives with an incredible array of new data about the galaxy.

Astronomers have created two new maps of the Milky Way revealing the fingerprint of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. The first map features bold loops and swirls of colour, which form when ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

Think of our galaxy — the Milky Way — and you will likely see stars and planets. You may also see satellites and asteroids. But while all that is most often only in our minds' eye, astronomers use ...

Many red supergiant monster stars lurk in a Milky Way cluster astronomers have discovered with the Gaia space telescope. The cluster, Barbá 2, could help understand why some stars become black holes.

(Nanowerk News) The first large-scale age-map of the Milky Way shows that a period of star formation lasting around 4 billion years created the complex structure at the heart of our galaxy. The ...

High in the Milky Way, a dying giant has thrown astronomers a cosmic curveball. A star known as DFK 52, sitting in the ...

Launched in 2013, Gaia gathers data on about 100,000 stars per minute -- some 500 million measurements per day. Its first map was published in September 2016, with about 1.15 billion stars.

Our Milky Way galaxy is a messy eater, leaving streams of star "crumbs" spread across the sky after chomping its smaller neighbors, a new study reports.

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...