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.

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

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

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

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"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 ...

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 European Space Agency's Gaia mission has completed its sky-scanning phase, having made over 3 trillion observations of approximately 2 billion stars and other celestial objects.

An artist's impression of the Milky Way, seen edge-on. Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a ...

ESA's groundbreaking Gaia space telescope is about to end its research work because it is running out of fuel. Tomorrow, Wednesday, the instrument will collect scientific data for the last time ...