This spacecraft, dedicated to mapping the Milky Way, has exhausted its ... of the most detailed 3D map of our galaxy. Despite the end of observations, Gaia's legacy is far from over.

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of the cosmic woods.

ESA is working on the GaiaNIR mission, an infrared version of Gaia which would be able to see through the dust in the Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and make a direct connection between ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...

An illustration shows the Gaia spacecraft telescope drifting between Earth and the sun as the Milky Way looks on ... the largest and most precise 3D map of our local universe.

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 ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

This has enabled Gaia to deliver on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us our home galaxy like no other mission has done before. As such ...

The use of the L2 point by Gaia has enabled precise and continuous observations, contributing to the creation of the most detailed 3D map of the Milky Way. This strategic position has been crucial to ...

Gaia studied almost 2 billion stars and other objects in and around the Milky Way. This vast stellar census contains details of star motions, luminosities, temperatures and compositions. The aim is to ...