After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...

On Thursday, March 27, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent the latest messages Gaia orbiting observatory. The prominent satellite was ordered to disconnect the communication systems and the central ...

Rendering of the Gaia telescope in space.Credit...ESA/ATG medialab ... the breadth of development and discovery that the spinning observatory has enabled. But here are a few numbers: nearly ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a black hole drifting alone in space—without a companion star ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more than a decade.