On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

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 powered ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying spacecraft, and one ...

Though Gaia's observations are complete, scientists are still analyzing the hundreds of terabytes of information sent from space. And the Gaia data are being released to the public in stages, as is ...