Astronomers working with data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope have identified 87 stellar stream candidates winding through the outer reaches of the Milky Way, roughly quadrupling ...

The European Gaia space mission has produced an unprecedented amount of new, improved, and detailed data for almost two billion objects in the Milky Way galaxy and the surrounding cosmos. The Gaia ...

On the 19th of December, the Gaia satellite will be launched and it will make the most precise measurements of the billions of stars in the Milky Way to date. Gaia is an astronomical satellite that ...

During a ceremony held in Toulouse on 11 May 2006, ESA officially awarded EADS Astrium the contract to develop and build the Gaia satellite. The goal of this space mission, currently planned for ...

Astronomical research on asteroids, i.e. minor planets, is also benefiting from the large-scale Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). Even though the astrometry satellite's main purpose is ...

This article was originally published in the Jan. 15, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. The European Space Agency team operating the star-mapping Gaia space telescope is preparing for its most ...

The Gaia DR3 astrometry is, however, so accurate that the angular offset between the asteroid's center of mass and the center of the area illuminated by the Sun and visible to Gaia must be accounted ...