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

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

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

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

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 ...

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

“our view of the Milky Way will become even more accurate,” he said. The spacecraft is nearly out of fuel now; when its tank is fully expended, Gaia will be moved into a retirement orbit.

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The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky ... the weeks ahead before Gaia is moved to its "retirement" orbit, and two massive data releases are tabled for around ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A* ... ever closer to the black hole and the size of its orbit diminished, but then stabilized.