Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service. This spacecraft, dedicated to mapping the Milky Way, has exhausted its ...

The Gaia space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in December 2013 with the aim of creating a detailed three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy, has observed about 2 ...

In this visualization of stars observed by ESA's Gaia mission, the "frequency of the rotating and pulsating stars was ...

The European Space Agency’s Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its sky-scanning phase, racking up more than three trillion observations of two billion ...