Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

So how many stars are there? Given all of the above, astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains around 100 billion stars, and there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...