Enormous Stream of Stars Discovered in Southern Sky
Scientists have discovered a nearby “stellar stream” containing thousands of stars spanning the southern sky. They made…
New Star Map Reveals the Milky Way Is Warped
A new analysis of pulsing stars has revealed the Milky Way’s twisted shape.
So What's Going on With That 'Hurricane of Dark Matter?'
It’s the perfect science-fiction device: a hurricane of dark matter. Recent, real-life research has demonstrated that…
Our Galactic Neighbors Once Collided, New Observation Suggests
Should you find yourself in the southern hemisphere beneath dark skies, look up: You’ll see two faint, glowing smudges…
Our Galaxy Was Walloped by a Neighbor in Its Not-So-Distant Past, New Analysis Suggests
Space is a chaotic, ever-changing place. But that’s not limited to exploding stars and colliding black holes. Even our…
Incredible New View of the Milky Way Is the Largest Star Map Ever
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft team has dropped its long-awaited trove of data about 1.7 billion stars.…
Tomorrow's Star Map Release Could Revolutionize Our Understanding of Astronomy
Astronomers from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission will release the biggest map of our galaxy ever tomorrow,…
Incoming Star Could Spawn Swarms of Comets When It Passes Our Sun
For years, scientists have known that Gliese 710 will come excruciatingly close to our Solar System in about a million…
The Largest 3D Map of the Galaxy Contains Over a Billion Stars
Some may call it excessive, unreasonable, exhibitionist. What kind of masochist wants to stare at a billion pinpricks…
The First Image From Gaia's Mission to Scan the Entire Sky
This image of twinkling stars is the first picture to be beamed back to Earth by the Gaia telescope—whose mission is to…
This Is How The Gaia Spacecraft Went to Space In 2 Minutes
The European Space Agency released this nice time-lapse video today of the Soyuz flight VS06.
How the Gaia Telescope Will Scan the Entire Sky
When the Gaia space telescope launches next week, it's going to attempt the biggest astronomy project of all time: it…
How the Gaia Spacecraft Will Reveal the True Nature of Our Galaxy
Our solar system is positioned near the edge of the Milky Way. It's a nice part of town, sure, but it doesn't allow for…
Saturday Webcomic: For Gaia's wizarding students, the real adventure begins after graduation
Ilias Oter is a student at the Academy for Arcane Studies and Material Arts of Cania, but he's no Harry Potter. He's a…
Keian Gaia 1200 Power Supply Has 1400W Peaks, Feeds Quad-Everything, Probably Travels In Time
Perhaps requiring your own nuclear reactor to run, the Keian Gaia 1200W is a power supply that not only looks better…