Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

Starstruck: A collage of four different Gaia maps: the speed at which stars move towards or away from us (top left); 3D motions of stars (bottom left); interstellar dust (top right); and star ...

Most of us have looked up at the night sky and wondered how far away the stars are or in what direction they are moving. The truth is, scientists don’t know the exact positions or velocities of the ...

A £2 billion European probe that will map more than a billion stars in 3D has been launched into our galaxy. The two-tonne observatory blasted into orbit on a Russian Soyuz rocket from the European ...

When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn't generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory.