The European Space Agency this week unveiled the first set of data from Gaia, its latest mission to collect more information for the ESA Star Mapping project, a 3D galaxy map that helps us better ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service. This spacecraft, dedicated to mapping the Milky Way, has exhausted its ...

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TOULOUSE, France — Europe’s Gaia satellite, designed to provide a 3-D map of 1 billion stars in the Milky Way and plot their movement, mass, composition and age, is set to leave its manufacturing site ...

This image, a composite of several observations captured by ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST), shows the space observatory Gaia as a faint trail of dots across the lower half of the star-filled field ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft will create a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, revealing information about its composition, formation and evolution. The mission will measure the ...

PARIS — Europe’s Gaia star-mapping satellite was successfully launched Dec. 19 aboard a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket from Europe’s South American spaceport in a mission that, after five years of ...

The largest digital camera ever sent into space is beginning its quest to map the Milky Way, surveying a billion stars with nearly a billion pixels. Claire Reilly was a video host, journalist and ...

A newly released image from the European Space Agency’s Gaia star-mapping mission shows a full-sky view of our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring galaxies in color. (ESA / Gaia / DPAC) The European ...

The Gaia mission, scheduled to launch Thursday morning (Dec. 19), could be a bonanza for discovering exoplanets, perhaps finding more than 2,500 new alien worlds, scientists suggest. Gaia, a $1 ...

The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has been made by combining data from the Gaia mission with complementary observations by ground ...