Gaia data has revealed a plethora of intriguing objects in our galaxy; in April 2024, scientists revealed the heaviest stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way, just 2,000 light-years from Earth.

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass ...

Ga­ia’s im­age of the Milky Way ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the most detailed catalog of our galaxy, using data from the Gaia mission launched ...

An infographic with the new artist impression of our Milky Way in the background, an artist impression of the Gaia space telescope in front of it, and numbers on the sky-scanning phase written in ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy colliding in the next 10 billion years. The study used observations from the ...

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.

More information: Samir Nepal et al, Discovery of the local counterpart of disc galaxies at z > 4: The oldest thin disc of the Milky Way using Gaia-RVS, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2402.00561 ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 trillion observations of about 2 billion stars and other objects over ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms. By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us ...

Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; The 3D map is a rich data-set on nearly two billion stars, and other objects within the Milky Way. During its survey, the space telescope captured pictures of three million ...