Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Despite having recently officially ended its science operations in January, Gaia, one of the most prolific star explorers ...

The feasibility of this technique has been drastically improved by Gaia's asteroid orbits and ultra-precise star maps in ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

As astronomers peer through telescopes across the cosmos, dust clouds may distort the light from distant objects, altering observations.