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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

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 ...

Using data collected using the Gaia satellite, an international team of researchers has uncovered what could be fresh details of a hypothetical dust-up between the Milky Way and an orbiting body ...

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 ...

In Gaia's Data Release 3 (DR3), however, the ESA satellite surpassed itself, determining the orbits of over 156,000 asteroids. But it's not all about quantity; the Gaia data has impressive quality ...

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 ...