"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

is a CV first identified as an optical transient by ESA's Gaia satellite. Given that very little is known about this system, a team of astronomers, led by Alexander Kolbin of the Kazan Federal ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion stars, including many objects never seen before, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), which ...

Gaia was preceded in the 1980s and the 1990s by another satellite from the European Space Agency called Hipparcos. And Hipparcos was kind of like a proto-Gaia. It was doing the same thing—it was ...

During a recent investigation, researchers poured through observations from the Keck Observatory (located 13,599 feet up in Hawaii) and the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite (which surveyed a ...

Two independent teams of astronomers, led by Matías Suazo and Gaby Contardo, analysed data from the Gaia satellite and infrared telescopes to identify unusual infrared heat patterns among ...

An international team led by astronomers from the Paris Observatory looked at the latest data from the Gaia satellite. Gaia is a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite, launched in 2013 ...