Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars in the mission’s first two years of taking data.

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

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 its ...

Ga­ia’s im­age of the Milky Way ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the most detailed catalog of our galaxy, using data from the Gaia mission launched ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most overlooked—astronomy project of the 21st century. Lee Billings.

Image: Halo stars: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, T Donlon et al. 2024; Background Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds: Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The region of interest in the Gaia data is the Milky Way’s inner ...

Gaia, the Milky Way's cartographer By Vahé Ter Minassian Published on July 23, 2022, at 10:00 pm (Paris), updated on July 23, 2022, at 10:00 pm. 10 min read Lire en français. Subscribers only.

Astronomers using the Gaia space telescope have located two ancient streams of stars that helped the Milky Way galaxy grow and evolve more than 12 billion years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way.But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated.

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. ... The research uses the latest data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, ...