Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...

Scientists found a fast-scattering star cluster called Ophion. Unlike usual clusters, it shows chaotic motion and breaks ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia ...

The Gaia star surveyor has identified strange behavior in a group of stars rushing to escape their birthplace, unlike any ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia telescope has provided data to further scientists' understanding of the Milky Way galaxy, such as the ability to create this face-on model, and the stars within it.

Overlaid as yellow dots are the locations of over 1000 young stars; these stars make up the newly discovered Ophion family in the Milky Way. The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has spotted ...

We have seen many star families with Gaia. We've spotted strings of stars stretching out across the Milky Way and remaining intact for billions of years, mapped the ancient star streams that wound ...