Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Scientists have discovered "space tornadoes" swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. International researchers made ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

Scientists say they’ve found “space tornadoes” swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. While the galaxy’s centre, ...

Astronomers find strange, tornado-like filaments of gas rotating around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

PARIS: Europe’s Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into “retirement” on Thursday after a decade revealing the ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An international ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.