Dune. Star Wars. Alien. Science fiction movies love alien worlds, and so do we. But how do scientists find planets outside ...

Scientists made the claim after analysing the data collected by the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia spacecraft.

A recent study has shown that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy approximately 200,000 light-years from ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first batch of images and data for its Euclid space telescope. The images focus ...

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Artist's impression of the Gaia telescope mapping stars of the Milky Way galaxy. | Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ...

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

The European Space Agency has retired its groundbreaking Gaia Spacecraft due to the depletion of its cold gas propellant.

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...