Gaia is a space telescope onboard a satellite that has orbited the sun for 11 years. With the help of astrometry, which is a technique to measure the positions, distances and movements of stars ...

Gaia has completed the mapping phase of its mission. Since its launch in 2013, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been charting our galaxy one star at a time. In those years, Gaia ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has said goodbye to Gaia, its "billion star surveyor." After nearly 11 years of celestial science—twice its planned lifetime—the spacecraft's fuel supplies ...

The originally planned lifespan of the spacecraft was just five years, but its mission was extended until its fuel reserves dipped too low. When that happened, the Gaia team had to plan a way to ...

Gaia Spacecraft Operator Tiago Nogueira said turning Gaia off was complicated. "Switching off a spacecraft at the end of its mission sounds like a simple enough job," he said.

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

The ESA has finally shut down Gaia, its mind-blowing space mission to map the Milky Way. Despite its retirement, Gaia is far from done.

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia ...

Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

Gaia's findings also inform the ESA's Euclid mission and its upcoming Plato mission, ensuring the beloved spacecraft will benefit science for years to come.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has said goodbye to Gaia, its "billion star surveyor." After nearly 11 years of celestial science—twice its planned lifetime—the spacecraft's fuel supplies ...