Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.

Cluster Gaia DR3 CMD (B versus B-R) diagram fitted with a Padova theoretical isochrone (Bressan et al. (2012), Marigo et al. (2013) for adopted cluster parameters (age = 470 +/- 50 Myrs ...

Gaia-4b is about twelve times more massive than Jupiter. With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet. Gaia-5b is a brown dwarf orbiting the star Gaia-5, around 134 ...

"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.