Located around 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius ... and a revolutionary three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. "The project was a monumental effort, made possible ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

The Hubble Telescope recently used these stars to determine the distance to a galaxy in the Virgo cluster, 56 million light-years from Earth ... seen in this way. With this new information and cutting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

The ESA will conduct technology tests for several weeks after Gaia’s observations end, before the spacecraft leaves its orbit ...