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

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

Located around 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ... obscures our view of our own galaxy, and a revolutionary three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. "The project was a monumental ...

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

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

The Hubble Telescope recently used these stars to determine the distance to a galaxy in the Virgo cluster, 56 million light-years from Earth ... seen in this way. With this new information and cutting ...

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 Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

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