Previously, these had been difficult to identify, but with the Gaia space observatory's data having mapped the Milky Way with ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

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

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

Illustration of the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory mapping the Milky Way. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier Since its launch in 2013 and positioning at the Lagrange ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

The Gaia space observatory orbits the so-called Lagrange 2 (L2) point, approximately 1.5 million kilometres away from the Earth where gravitational forces between the Earth and Sun are balanced ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.

The bright star that sits just at the edge of the prominent bluish galaxy is only 3,230 light-years away, as measured by ESA's Gaia space observatory. Behind this star is a galaxy named LEDA 803211.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning ... Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Astronomical Observatory of Padua, Italy. "Even though the mission has now ...