ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft concluded its sky-scanning mission after mapping the Milky Way for more than 10 years. On January 15, Gaia completed its last observations ...

Gaia has therefore built the most precise map of the Milky Way to date, giving the ESA a detailed reconstructed view of our home galaxy. “It contains major changes from previous models ...

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 ... as ...

"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia catalog (eDR3). The upper part shows a region where the Palomar 5 star cluster and its tidal tails are observed (DESI Legacy Imaging ...

As such, we now also have the best reconstructed view of how our galaxy might look to an outside observer. This new artist impression of the Milky Way incorporates Gaia data from a multitude of ...

An illustration shows the Gaia spacecraft telescope drifting between Earth and the sun as the Milky Way looks on ... gas propellant it uses to spin. The top-hat-shaped craft has been using ...

which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years, shut down science operations on Wednesday (Jan. 15). The close of the mission's data-collecting phase was necessitated by Gaia running low ...