The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) has said goodbye to Gaia, its "billion star surveyor." After nearly 11 years of celestial ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

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

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

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

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.

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

The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially retired its Gaia spacecraft, after over ten years of data collection on our ...