The European Space Agency (ESA) has gathered unprecedented insights into the history of our galaxy, the Milky Way. ESA's ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its sky-scanning phase, racking up ...

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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, ...

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

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, ...

The Gaia space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in December 2013 with the aim of creating a detailed three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy, has observed about 2 ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

An illustration shows the Gaia spacecraft telescope drifting between Earth and the sun as the Milky Way looks on. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Night has fallen for the star-tracking ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...