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 years of mapping the Milky Way.

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’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.

Saying Farewell to the Gaia Mission, Which Mapped the Milky Way. We look back on about 11 years of the Gaia spacecraft, now at the end of its mission to create the best map of the Milky Way.

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

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, ...