Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has said goodbye to Gaia, its "billion star surveyor." After nearly 11 years of celestial science—twice its planned lifetime—the spacecraft's fuel supplies ...

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. The work to analyze the data continues. A control team at the ESA's European Space ...

The space observatory detected more than 100,000 starquakes. The European Space Agency released a trove of data Monday on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia space ...

Recent research using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has shed light on the eventual fate of our sun, which will puff up to become an enormous red giant, likely swallowing ...

The European Space Agency just released an intricate star map cataloging the precise positions of more than 1.1 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. So far, it’s the largest chart of celestial ...

Now, the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite has produced the most accurate 3-D map of the galaxy ever. Shared through two data releases—one in September 2016, ...

BERLIN, Germany — The European Space Agency released a trove of data Monday on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia space observatory in an effort to create the most accurate ...