After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia ...

Gaia space observatory bids farewell after a decade of mapping the stars After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring.

The European Space Agency (ESA) and its Gaia space observatory recently faced an unexpected challenge. Over a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, this technological marvel was struck ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its final orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more than a decade. The spacecraft's control team at the European Space ...

The observatory is called Gaia. ... From its station in a quiescent region of deep space more than 1.6 million kilometers from Earth, Gaia’s mission was, in essence, ...

Ga­ia’s im­age of the Milky Way ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the most detailed catalog of our galaxy, using data from the Gaia mission launched ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...