ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to ...

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Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

The Gaia spacecraft has unearthed a new treasure trove of secrets about our galaxy — and beyond. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission plans to produce the largest, most precise 3D map of the Milky ...

Gaia is a survey mission launched in 2013 on a Soyuz-STB/Fregat-MT launch vehicle from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. It is currently surveying our Milky Way galaxy and beyond, is ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has discovered a massive black hole with a mass almost 33 times that of the Sun. Normally they’re only found in very distant galaxies not in our celestial ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) first launched the Gaia project back in 2013 with the intention of collecting more precise data about as many of the stars in and beyond our galaxy as possible. In fact ...

During a ceremony held in Toulouse on 11 May 2006, ESA officially awarded EADS Astrium the contract to develop and build the Gaia satellite. The goal of this space mission, currently planned for ...