The Gaia spacecraft has unearthed a new treasure trove of secrets about our galaxy — and beyond. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission plans to produce the largest, most precise 3D map of the Milky ...

ESA's Gaia mission ends its tenure—creating the most comprehensive and precise 3D map of Milky Way Galaxy In March 2025, the Gaia mission stopped collecting data from space. The influence of this ...

The European Space Agency space telescope also found over 380 gravity-lensed quasars and detailed the orbits of over 150,000 asteroids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn't generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory.

Have you ever dreamed of traveling through the vast universe like an astronaut? Now, the opportunity has arrived! The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope has brought us an unprecedented ...

In the vast and boundless universe, every star tells its own story. Recently, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed a new secret of the Milky Way—those star clusters and ...

Euclid spots 26 million galaxies and more in latest observations. Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope.

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from ESA's Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about these ...

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are some holes ...