While The Game Awards 2021 looks forward by featuring some of the biggest announcements and reveals in the world of video games, it is also a time to celebrate the incredible games that made this past ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

The actress shares her daughter and son Tindyebwa with husband Greg Wise Alessandro Levati/Getty Emma Thompson's daughter is her mini-me! The Sense and Sensibility star, 66, was photographed posing ...

This observatory has probably been the most transformative astronomy project of the 21st century, but there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it. Just last week, for instance, the Hayden ...

As a designer, it can be challenging to keep up with the relentless need for newness every season—so rather than reinventing the wheel for pre-fall, designer Jasmin Larian Hekmat looked to the things ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia is ...

Laura Nicole Driessen is an ambassador for the Orbit Centre of Imagination at the Rise and Shine Kindergarten, in Sydney's Inner West. Gaia has been the most successful ESA space mission ever, so why ...

After more than a decade of scanning the stars, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has officially gone silent. The Gaia shutdown marks the end of a groundbreaking mission but not the ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was ...

"We will never forget Gaia, and Gaia will never forget us." Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its final orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more than a decade. The ...

"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Night has fallen for the star-tracking European ...