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 ...

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

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

But there's another type of star group that is gaining more attention – tidal streams, long rivers of stars that stretch ...

"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the ...

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

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

ESA's star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to be a formidable asteroid explorer, spotting potential moons around more ...

Gaia Data Release 4 is set to expand its binary star catalogue, the largest such catalogue to date. Gaia has a unique ability to tease out the tiny motions of pairs of celestial objects orbiting ...

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, ...

and star clusters scattered in their outskirts. In fact, the Gaia mission itself has revealed that our galaxy’s halo is full of debris from some massive dwarf galaxies—such as the Gaia ...