We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy. And that map shows that the edges of the Milky way bend slightly, giving it a warped S shape. "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is ...

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy, and have studied previous flaring events ...

In their study published Thursday in the journal Science, they showed that by measuring the distance between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head. After more than a ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

Gaia mission aims to create a 3D map of Milky Way and to provide details about its composition and formation. Scientists expect Gaia to eventually provide accurate positional and radial velocity ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years ... The aim is to build the largest and most precise 3D map of our local universe. The spacecraft's first data release ...