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

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 ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a plane in the sky while ground-based telescopes meanwhile track how light ...

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 ...

Departure you will play as Gaia, the shattered will of a planet, and command your spaceship to explore new worlds, collect and refine various resources, build a home on the damaged spacecraft ...

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 ...

An analysis of data from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft and China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), as well as data from other large-scale ...

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 ...