and has already spotted previously hidden companions around bright stars. Incidentally, Gaia's last targeted observation, on 10 January, was of binary pair 61 Cygni. This iconic star attracted the ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the ...

As that star "wobbles" away from Earth (and Gaia), the wavelength of light stretches ... sample lie at tiny separation angles from their bright stellar parents of a few dozen milliarcseconds ...

Gaia closed its eyes on January 15, marking the end of its mission. The European Space Agency (ESA) satellite has spent more than a decade carrying out astrometry – in other words, determining ...

Gaia had already been investigating known asteroid binaries, confirming they have companions, but this breakthrough shows the star surveyor ... hidden objects around bright stars Asteroids are ...

The bright star that sits just at the edge of the prominent bluish galaxy is only 3,230 light-years away, as measured by ESA's Gaia space observatory. Behind this star is a galaxy named LEDA 803211.