Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ESA released the photos of Gaia Observatory's deep space scans and provided the world with a look at NASA's James Webb Telescope, its neighbor orbiter, that it saw in space. The spacecraft is 620,000 ...

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 ...

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 taken ...