ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to latter, black hole Gaia BH2, and see what makes it unique. Credit: ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years ...

The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...