The ESA has finally shut down Gaia, its mind-blowing space mission to map the Milky Way. Despite its retirement, Gaia is far from done.

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

On March 27, scientists bid farewell to the Gaia telescope, bringing to a close its groundbreaking 11-year mission of mapping the Milky Way and our cosmic neighborhood.

The ESA's Gaia mission has discovered over half a million new stars in a crowded region of space known as Omega Centauri.

New data from the Gaia space telescope are a cosmic goldmine, including never-seen-before stars, 380 gravity-lensed quasars, and the orbits of over 150,000 asteroids.

ESA's Gaia mission has released new data and images that unravel more secrets bout our galaxy — and beyond.

ESA has made public a colossal data release from the agency’s Gaia observatory, which is currently engaged in a mission to survey 1 billion stars orbiting in the Milky Way. The data has already ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has been pictured by another space observatory, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia. The two spacecraft were about 620,000 miles apart at the time the image was ...

This week saw the release of a treasure trove of data from ESA's Gaia mission, a space-based observatory that is mapping out the Milky Way in three dimensions.

This week, the world will see one of the biggest dumps of astronomical data, ever. Launched in 2013, the ESA's Gaia spacecraft is meant to do so-called astrometry, or space measurement, taking a ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the most detailed ever catalogue of our galaxy, using data from the Gaia mission launched in 2013.