ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years ...

the Gaia mission continued to stun researchers with its findings, collecting and transferring a “treasure trove” of data back to Earth. With data from the spacecraft, the ESA released the ...

"This will conclude an incredible coordinated effort between hundreds of experts across the science operations center here at ESAC, the mission operations team flying Gaia from ESA's European ...