On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...

After more than ten years in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially said goodbye to its Gaia spacecraft. On 27 ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement orbit" around the Sun on Thursday, the European Space Agency said. Since ...

Gaia-BH3 was not seen directly but inferred from the movements of what appeared to be a lone star now understood to be its companion. The discovery of the bright star nearby suggests many more ...

The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, has been deactivated and placed in a "retirement orbit" around the sun after mapping nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency ... spotted new and previously unknown star clusters, and helped to discover objects like exoplanets and black holes. The enormous trove ...

Credit: Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho. Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its final orbit ...