After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

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 ...

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

In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

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

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

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 ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...