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In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia created the most detailed 3D ...

Jasmin Larian Hekmat believes in magic. Specifically, the Cult Gaia founder has been leaning into the “vortex of ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar Gaia has transformed the way scientists understand the universe, and its data has become a reference point for many other telescopes on the ground and in space.

One of astronomy's biggest puzzles may have been solved by a new theory that suggests the universe may rotate at an extremely slow rate. Current models suggest the universe is expanding evenly in all ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

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Gaia has been peering into the universe from a stable orbit 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth called the second Lagrange point. But the neighborhood has been getting more crowded ...