The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

The ESA has finally shut down Gaia, its mind-blowing space mission to map the Milky Way. Despite its retirement, Gaia is far ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...

After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has said goodbye to Gaia, its "billion star surveyor." After nearly 11 years of celestial ...

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially retired its Gaia spacecraft, after over ten years of data collection on our ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

ESA’s Gaia mission ends after 12 years, having mapped 2 billion stars and reshaped astronomy. Its data will fuel discoveries ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...