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

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

ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

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

After more than a decade of service, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down for good—closing one ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...

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 of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

Gaia has collected data on billions of stars for more than ten years and will take years to analyze. It will be switched off ...

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