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

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

An artist's impression of the Milky Way, seen edge-on. Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The galactic map maker has changed our understanding of the galaxy, its past, neighborhood, and even provided new insights into the Solar System. After 10.5 years of observations, Gaia’s eye on ...

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

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

This has enabled Gaia to deliver on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us our home galaxy like no other mission has done before. As such ...

Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize more than one billion ... began their lives as part of the Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage galaxy. The Milky Way is 13.5 billion years old and is thought ...