The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Once the two galaxies are merged, the supermassive hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud – if black hole there is – will make its way to the galactic center, where it will eventually, after many more ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way. During ...

The planet is the fourth world to be spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, which was designed to map a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, cataloguing their masses ...

As soon as we start studying a stellar source, we make use of Gaia's results." Even if the satellite was far from being able to observe all the stars in the Milky Way, what it did see changed our ...

For the new study, researchers sought to find out what these two are and what they're up to more than a decade later – using data from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the European Space Agency's ...

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

Fig.1: Artistic representation of the Milky Way. The position of the Solar System is pointed by a white row. Our sun and its ...