Named after a divine couple from Hindu philosophy, Shakti and Shiva are ancient star streams that scientists say could fill in some of the blanks on how the Milky Way formed. The European Space Agency ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

Researchers at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astronomy on Thursday announced the discovery of two new building blocks called "Shakti" and "Shiva," using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has uncovered two ancient streams of stars within the Milky Way galaxy, shedding light on its early formation. Each stream carries the mass of about 10 ...

Astrophysicists looking into the Milky Way's beginnings may have found the "ancient heart" of our galaxy, which is the original, prehistoric core around which all of its stars and planets evolved, ...

Astrophysicists investigating the origins of the Milky Way may have discovered our galaxy’s ‘old heart’ — the original, ancient nucleus around which all of its stars and planets grew. The collection ...

Roughly 10 billion years ago, the Milky Way collided with another galaxy and devoured it whole. But that second galaxy, called Gaia-Enceladus, didn’t just disappear. Even today, traces of this ...