Since the day break of civilization, people have looked for to clarify the beginnings of the universe, Soil, and life itself.

Artist's illustration showing a distant star going out of sight as it is eclipsed by Uranus — an event known as a planetary stellar occultation. | Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Laboratory NASA ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A group of over 1000 young stars, named Ophion, has been identified using Gaia data. Unlike typical large star families that disperse gradually and cohesively ...

The upshot is that we now know that a day on Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds, or 28 seconds longer than the best previous estimate made by NASA’s Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a ...

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.