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ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.
Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...
Using the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a powerfully magnetic neutron star in the Milky ...
Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia created the most detailed 3D ...
A team of astronomers has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date and tracked dark energy’s influence on the ...
An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...
A team of astronomers has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date and tracked dark energy's influence on the ...
Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) telescope took its ...
A decade of observations cast doubt on the typical magnetar origin story, at least as it relates to SGR 0501+4516.