New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

Gaia is a space telescope onboard a satellite that has orbited the sun for 11 years. With the help of astrometry, which is a technique to measure the positions, distances and movements of stars ...

Using Europe's Gaia space telescope, astronomers have identified 55 runaway stars being ejected at high speeds from a densely ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

And so Gaia, even though it’s almost like the air that astronomers breathe, as someone once told me, is also kind of a telescope or a mission that only astronomers can love. Feltman: Mm ...

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.

They traced the speedy stars' trajectories, using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, as a way of ...

Published as a cover story in Science on Friday, this cosmic atlas solves a decade-old challenge in astronomy by revealing ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...