But its legacy lives on. Rendering of the Gaia telescope in space.Credit...ESA/ATG medialab; ESO, via S. Brunier Supported by By Katrina Miller From ancient star streams to the innards of white ...

The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency (ESA) has now been powered down and sent into a “retirement orbit” around the sun — but data from the mission will continue to be released ...

March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center ...

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Paris: Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for ...