We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...
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 (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, ...
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, ...
Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
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 ...
Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.