Studies of young stars and their forming environments are routinely performed at different wavelengths and with different observational techniques. The recent release of the Gaia catalog allows us to use yet another technique for these studies: astrometry. Here I present our recent findings based on Gaia DR2 data on the Lupus V-VI clouds, solving the old conundrum of the very low disk fraction in these clouds. I also show someinitial results on the distance estimates to other star-forming regions.