We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

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

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

The Milky Way-mapper Gaia telescope is being switched off today. The European Space Agency (ESA) said on March 27 that Gaia's ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.