As humans do from their parents' homes and birds do from their nests, stars leave their so-called stellar nurseries once they ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and one ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

"Ophion is filled with stars that are set to rush out across the galaxy in a totally haphazard, uncoordinated way, which is ...

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has meticulously mapped nearly two billion stars, revolutionizing what we know about the structure, history, and motion of the Milky Way. On March 27, 2025 ...

Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

A family of stars spotted by the Gaia space telescope are behaving like none we have seen before, expanding the bounds of what we think is possible. Although two explanations have been proposed ...

ESA's revolutionary Gaia space telescope will finally be switched off on Thursday. Gaia will then receive its last commands from the ESA Satellite Control Center in Darmstadt, the Gaia team ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to ...

Data from Europe's Gaia spacecraft have revealed that a cluster of 1,000 stars is breaking up much faster than is normal, ...