Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

In this visualization of stars observed by ESA's Gaia mission, the "frequency of the rotating and pulsating stars was ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

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