Credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC / Stefan Payne-Wardenaar illustration Astronomers poring through a now-retired space telescope's data have spotted a bizarre family of fledgling stars breaking all the ...

due to the immense volume and high quality of spectroscopic observations needed to make it work," adds ESA Gaia Project Scientist Johannes Sahlmann. "It's still pretty new to be able to reliably ...

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

In a groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists have uncovered an unusual star cluster called ...

They were detected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC/M. Marcussen | edited by Space.com Trump locks in future of Michigan air base with new fighter jet ...

The graphic shows locations of Euclid Deep Fields on Gaia and Planck sky map. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA; ESA/Gaia/DPAC; ESA/Planck Collaboration The release of the data marks a ...

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

Ophion appears to cover a wide area of sky because it is relatively close to us. | Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC A huge family of newborn stars seem to now be going their separate ways: Over 1,000 stars ...

Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is making the most of it. An image from the Hubble Space Telescope ...

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

However, recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Gaia spacecraft tells a different story. The magnetar is moving too fast and in the wrong direction to have come from HB9.

The EU's list of tech dependencies on the US is long and the path to independence is arduous. But our authors believe that ...