Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...
Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its ...
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 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 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 ...
After 11 years in space, Gaia has been subjected to numerous impacts from micrometeorites and solar storms, and today it has completed its scientific data collection mission. Now we turn our ...
In this visualization of stars observed by ESA's Gaia mission, the "frequency of the rotating and pulsating stars was ...