The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

Gaia reveals two new mysterious celestial objects New research, published today, uses data collected by ESA's Gaia spacecraft to confirm the existence of two mysterious celestial objects.

A Journey Taken by Solar System Millions of Years Ago Possibly Changed Earth's Climate Forever, Claim Researchers The solar ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Delta plane crashes, overturns in Toronto; all survive, officials say ...

Astronomers are buzzing over a groundbreaking discovery made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Gaia spacecraft, which found two giant cosmic objects hiding in plain sight. For the first ...

Gaia-4b, an exoplanet about 244 light-years away, is twelve times more massive than Jupiter. Credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC / M. Marcussen illustration Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, a world ...

An artist's impression of the exoplanet Gaia-4b orbiting its star, tracing the shape of its orbit. | Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC/M. Marcussen. One of the largest exoplanets to be found orbiting a ...