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After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia is ...

The star-mapping Gaia satellite was struck by high-speed micrometeoroid, and it left a gap in the shield, scientists say. ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier Science fiction movies that show ...

The ESA's Gaia is a spacecraft that looks at billions of stars, and it brings more of the many discoveries in deep space, and it will help in mapping more of the Milky Way's region. The new mission ...

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Today astronomers are saying goodbye to a remarkable spacecraft: a telescope that has observed nearly two billion stars in its 12-year life. The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency (ESA) ...

According to ESA’s reporting on the study, the wave behaves like ripples expanding from a stone dropped into water, though in ...

Science fiction movies that show microscopic meteoroids dramatically puncturing spacecraft aren’t far from the truth. The European Space Agency’s star mapping Gaia spacecraft was overtaken by “space ...