ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to ...

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The Gaia spacecraft has unearthed a new treasure trove of secrets about our galaxy — and beyond. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission plans to produce the largest, most precise 3D map of the ...

Launched in 2013, the ESA's Gaia spacecraft is meant to do so-called astrometry, or space measurement, taking a 3D snapshot of more than a billion objects making up the Milky Way.

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

Overall, the ESA says that Gaia has uncovered the existence of 526,587 new stars within the Omega Centauri region. There are at least nine crowded regions in the area, ...

ESA has published a colossal data release from the agency’s Gaia observatory, which is currently engaged in a mission to survey 1 billion stars orbiting in the Milky Way.

ESA’s Gaia will map stars in the Milky Way. It will do this by measuring the brightest billion objects and determining their three-dimensional distribution and velocities.

ESA said that Gaia suffered first a puncture from a fast-moving micrometeoroid, then an electronics malfunction. Due to these issues, the telescope began sending its Earthbound operators gigabytes ...

ESA's Gaia spacecraft to create 3D map of the Milky Way Gaia will observe a billion stars, using two telescopes and a billion-pixel camera for shooting video of these moving stars.