On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

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 ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

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 ...

On March 27, scientists bid farewell to the Gaia telescope, bringing to a close its groundbreaking 11-year mission of mapping the Milky Way and our cosmic neighborhood. Though not as famous as some of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy. On 27 March ...

The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, has been deactivated and placed in a "retirement orbit" around the sun after mapping nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

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