He’s here to tell us why the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft is so important—and why, even though the Gaia mission is technically coming to a close, its scientific legacy is only ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has completed its sky-scanning mission today after mapping the Milky Way for more than 10 years. Gaia has racked up more than three trillion ...

The data released Wednesday include high-precision measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars collected by the space agency's Gaia probe, which was launched in 2013. It follows the release two years ago ...

Astronomers are buzzing over a groundbreaking discovery made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Gaia spacecraft, which found two giant cosmic objects hiding in plain sight. For the first ...

Gaia spacecraft. Through its precise monitoring of the positions and motions of stars in our galaxy, Gaia is revolutionizing our understanding of many areas of astrophysics. With its exquisite ...

Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky Way for the better part of a decade. Since launching in December 2013 ...