After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

Credit: Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho The European Space Agency (ESA) has said goodbye to Gaia, its "billion star surveyor." ...

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.

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy. On 27 March ...

In its quest to chart the evolution of the universe, ESA’s space telescope has already amassed a massive catalog of galaxies ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...