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

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

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

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

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

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, ...