The European satellite, launched in 2013, has exhausted its gas reserves and is preparing to return to a stable orbit before being 'passivated.' But while the data collection that revolutionized ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

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

Published this week in Nature Astronomy, the paper has used new data of unprecedented precision from the Gaia satellite. Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize more than one billion of ...

New data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite catalog has discovered that the Milky Way is a lot smaller than astronomers previously thought. But how will this fact change what we ...

"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the ...

Although Earth is saying goodbye to the spacecraft this year, Gaia’s observations will result in two more data releases by 2030. On 27 March this year, the European Space Agency (ESA ...

The member stars in the corona are invisible. These are only revealed thanks to the combination of precise measurements with the ESA Gaia satellite and innovative machine learning tools ...