Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further ...

By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...

But this is far from the end of the mission. Technology tests are scheduled for the weeks ahead before Gaia is moved to its ‘retirement’ orbit, and two massive data releases are tabled for around 2026 ...

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 ...

Launched on December 19, 2013, the fuel tank of ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia is now approaching empty, but this is far from the end of the mission. Technology tests are scheduled for the weeks ...

ESA now says that the few grams of cold gas are being used to conduct technology tests. Besides, the mission team is also preparing for the Gaia Data Release 4 before mid-2026. Since 2013, Gaia has ...

covering the full 10.5 years of mission data," said Rocio Guerra, Gaia Science Operations Team Leader based at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) near Madrid in Spain. Gaia's retirement plan ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite that maps the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, in which it has accumulated more than three trillion observations of some ...

This is a new artists animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESAs Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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, shut down science operations on Wednesday ...