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

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

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

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

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

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

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 officially retired its Gaia spacecraft, after over ten years of data collection on our ...

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

Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...