Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

Thanks to the latest Gaia satellite catalog from the European Space Agency (ESA), an international team led by astronomers from the Paris Observatory–PSL and the CNRS has achieved the most ...

Published this week in Nature Astronomy, the paper has used new data of unprecedented precision from the Gaia satellite. Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize more than one billion of ...

We also need computers and AI to analyze vast datasets. Astronomy is no longer data-poor: the European Gaia satellite has measured the colors and motions of almost two billion stars in our galaxy ...

The European Space Agency's (Esa) Gaia satellite was launched in 2013 and placed a million miles from Earth. It looks a bit like a spinning top hat. And as it rotates, the telescope uses its ...

more indirect techniques on the 'ladder' deployed to measure the most far-flung distances The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite looks like a spinning top hat, but it's an example of exquisite ...