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

and the orbital motion of a satellite balance each other. Gaia's primary goal was to map the positions and movements of over a billion stars within the Milky Way, creating the largest, most ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy. On 27 March ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist impression of ESA's Gaia satellite observing the Milky Way. The background image of ...

Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from Turkey and India have investigated NGC 188—an old open cluster in the Milky Way. Results of the study, published April 19 on the pre-print ...

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 ...

Data from the Keck Observatory and ESA’s Gaia satellite indicate a high-speed celestial body that may eventually escape t... Astronomers has revealed a rare triple system in the Milky Way ...

Recently, low-resolution blue and red photometer spectra (BP/RP or XP spectra) for 210 million stars have been published with the Data Release 3 (DR3) from ESA's Gaia satellite. A team of ...

Data from the Keck Observatory and ESA’s Gaia satellite indicate a high-speed celestial body that may eventually escape t... ISRO has confirmed that its maiden space docking mission, SpaDeX ...

"We will never forget Gaia, and Gaia will never forget us." Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its final orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more than a decade.