European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory has revealed strange and unexpected tsunami-like starquakes – movements on stars’ crusts similar to earthquakes we experience on our planet.

On June 13, at 6 A.M. ET, astronomers around the world descended on the Gaia Archive: the landing Web page for every last bit of data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Milky Way ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Gaia mission has been mapping the Milky Way since 2014 and the map is getting better ...

The Gaia Project's Data Release 3: a 3D Map of the Milky Way The new map of the Milky Way includes information on parallax and proper motion (velocity across the sky) for more than 1.3 billion stars.