Farewell, Gaia: spacecraft operations come to an end
27 March 2025The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down, after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy.
Latest Gaia data release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and unforeseen science
10 October 2023The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor has surpassed its planned potential to reveal half a million new and faint stars in a massive cluster, identified over 380 possible cosmic lenses, and pinpointed the positions of more than 150,000 asteroids within the Solar System.
Largest chemical map of the Milky Way unveiled
13 June 2022The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission has released a new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy, including stellar DNA, asymmetric motions, strange ‘starquakes’, and other fascinating insights.
Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy – and beyond
25 April 2018The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details of our home Galaxy.
Gaia results revealed – first data release from the most detailed map ever made of the sky
14 September 2016The first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one billion stars in the Milky Way, are being released today to astronomers and the public.
One year and 272 billion measurements later, Gaia team celebrates first anniversary of observations
25 August 2015A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, three-dimensional map of the Milky Way is celebrating its first completed year of observations.
