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

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

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

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has meticulously mapped nearly two billion stars, revolutionizing what we know about the structure, history, and motion of the Milky Way. On March 27, 2025 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After more than a decade of scanning the stars, the European Space Agency’s (ESA ...

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 ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...

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 ...

March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center ...

But its legacy lives on. Rendering of the Gaia telescope in space.Credit...ESA/ATG medialab; ESO, via S. Brunier Supported by By Katrina Miller From ancient star streams to the innards of white ...

ESA's revolutionary Gaia space telescope will finally be switched off on Thursday. Gaia will then receive its last commands from the ESA Satellite Control Center in Darmstadt, the Gaia team ...