ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to latter, black hole Gaia BH2, and see what makes it unique. Credit: ...

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

In a few short years, there will be “more AI agents than humans on Earth acting on the internet,” said Gaia CEO Matt Wright. ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.

Gaia is first and foremost a map maker ... finding the two closest black holes to Earth (which may even be a new class of black holes), and finding the ancient heart of the Milky Way.

Although Earth is saying goodbye to the spacecraft this year, Gaia’s observations will result in two more data releases by 2030. On 27 March this year, the European Space Agency (ESA ...

A giant spinning model of the Earth has been a "brilliant" boost to visitor numbers at a cathedral, staff said. More than 37,000 people came to see the Gaia art installation at Peterborough ...

Leeds City Council Gaia, here shown in the Natural History Museum's Dinosaurs gallery, uses high-tech NASA imagery of the Earth's surface Discovery Channel Taiwan Gaia on display in Taipei - the ...

A new Captain Planet comic book series is on the way - the first in three decades - and the hero is back with a new look (and ...

Once all of Gaia's data has been downloaded to Earth, work will begin on GR5, the final data release from the spacecraft. This will be a monster data dump containing stellar observations collected ...