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

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest ... which is about 1% of all stars in the Milky Way. The Gaia mission was originally supposed to last five years, but thanks to the fact that ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

T he European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and able to scan the sky, so it has decided to nominally end science ...

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 ...

The Gaia spacecraft has given scientists the “best insight yet” of what our galaxy – the Milky Way – looks like. Its sky-scanning mission came to an end last month (January 15) after ...

University of Leeds' scientists, analysing data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, have uncovered a startling revelation that challenges our understanding of star systems. Some star ...

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