Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.

After more than ten years in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially said goodbye to its Gaia spacecraft. On 27 March 2025, Gaia was powered down and sent into a quiet orbit around the ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia created the most detailed 3D ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way, offering insights into ... Gaia gave us detailed measurements of stars across the galaxy. "Missions that produce images ...