ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

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

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

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

In this visualization of stars observed by ESA's Gaia mission, the "frequency of the rotating and pulsating stars was increased 8.6 million" to make them audible to humans. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC ...

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

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has completed its sky-scanning phase, having made over 3 trillion observations of approximately 2 billion stars and other celestial objects.

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.