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

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

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

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...

Originally named Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, Gaia was conceived with the aim of mapping the cosmos, ...

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

The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

The universe is thought to have experienced a rapid and exponential expansion in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Webb, which was launched by NASA in 2022 and became operational in 2023, has begun to provide a deeper understanding of the early universe. It has spotted only four galaxies dating to slightly earlier ...

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

The ESA has finally shut down Gaia, its mind-blowing space mission to map the Milky Way. Despite its retirement, Gaia is far ...

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