The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service. This spacecraft, dedicated to mapping the Milky Way, has exhausted its ...

"Even though the mission has now stopped collecting ... hidden companions around bright stars. Incidentally, Gaia's last targeted observation, on 10 January, was of binary pair 61 Cygni.

According to the ESA, after completing the astronomical observation phase ... (DR5), a dataset analyzing the entire mission, by the end of the decade. Gaia Science Operations Team Leader Rocio ...

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA ... marking the end of an era of cosmic observation. Since its launch in 2013 and positioning at the Lagrange L2 point, Gaia has revolutionized ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

Up next is Gaia's fourth data release expected towards the end of 2026 which covers the 5.5 years of it nominal mission duration, said Sahlmann. It will include all the individual Gaia ...

"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the ...

Gaia has completed the mapping phase of its mission. Since its launch in 2013, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been charting our galaxy one star at a time. In those years ...

Gaia closed its eyes on January 15, marking the end of its mission. The European Space Agency (ESA) satellite has spent more than a decade carrying out astrometry – in other words, determining ...

Gaia mission data, which precisely pinpoints the ... stars due to their unique characteristics. Another puzzling observation was the similarity in distances between companion stars in both B ...