The European Space Agency's Gaia telescope has provided data to further scientists' understanding of the Milky Way galaxy, such as the ability to create this face-on model, and the stars within it.

Stars in the Milky Way tend to form in families, with similar stars springing to life in roughly the same place at roughly the same time. These stars later head out into the wider galaxy when they're ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The European Space Agency's Gaia telescope has provided data to further scientists' understanding of the Milky Way galaxy, such as ...

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 ...

This is a map of the entire sky, captured by ESA's Gaia mission. Overlaid as yellow dots are the locations of over 1000 young stars; these stars make up the newly discovered Ophion family in the Milky ...