The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and one ...

"Ophion is filled with stars that are set to rush out across the galaxy in a totally haphazard, uncoordinated way, which is ...

As humans do from their parents' homes and birds do from their nests, stars leave their so-called stellar nurseries once they ...

Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting ...

Data from Europe's Gaia spacecraft have revealed that a cluster of 1,000 stars is breaking up much faster than is normal, ...

"Another is how the Gaia mission is creating opportunities for new collaborative and interdisciplinary science through its open data policy. Several members of the Ophion discovery team are ...

In its quest to chart the evolution of the universe, ESA’s space telescope has already amassed a massive catalog of galaxies ...

It has contributed to 71 orbital space missions and 200 rocket launches and powered three of the largest astronomical focal planes in space: Euclid, Gaia, and PLAnetary Transits ... from the experts ...

Stars are born in families before dispersing, but we have never seen one that has broken up anything like this fast.

The satellite, named Biomass, launched with a rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, New Guinea, and separated from the ...