"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

Using in part the NEID spectrograph mounted on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

The successes of Gaia will help inspire new generations of scientists to make a successor mission a reality and to continue to push the boundaries of space astrometry, in the spirit of Gaia's legacy.

More information: L. Liberato et al, Binary asteroid candidates in Gaia DR3 astrometry, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024). DOI: ...

The European satellite, launched in 2013, has exhausted its gas reserves and is preparing to return to a stable orbit before being 'passivated.' But while the data collection that revolutionized ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

Gaia built on unique European excellence in astrometry and will leave a long-lasting legacy for future generations." "After 11 years in space and surviving micrometeorite impacts and solar storms ...