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

BECAUSE WE HAVE THE POSITIONS, BRIGHTNESS AND COLOR OF 2 BILLION STARS IN THE SKY, WE CAN MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ALL SKY MAP OF THE MILKY WAY. JOHN: BUT GAIA HAS CREATED MORE THAN BEAUTIFUL MAPS.

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia created the most detailed 3D ...

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

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

Since launching in 2013, the telescope has been charting the positions, motion and properties of nearly two billion stars to create a vast map of the Milky Way, revealing many secrets of the cosmos ...

A map showing the positions and radio luminosity of the stars (the coloured points) from my work on radio stars. The positions and distances of 95% of the stars shown here came from Gaia data.

A workhorse of galactic exploration, Gaia has charted the maps that future explorers will rely on to make new discoveries. The star trackers on ESA's Euclid spacecraft uses Gaia data to precisely ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to ...

motion and properties of nearly two billion stars to create an unparalleled map of our home galaxy, according to the European Space Agency. Gaia has been peering into the universe from a stable ...

This hint was chased up by the European Space Agency's (ESA) star-tracking space telescope Gaia while it was building a detailed 3D map of 2 billion stars in the Milky Way. This revealed the ...