After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

Originally named Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, Gaia was conceived with the aim of mapping the cosmos, ...

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia ...

Explore the four galactic quadrants of the Milky Way and find out which one contains Earth, from scientific facts to sci-fi lore like Star Trek.

Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...