In the eleventh year of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gaia space telescope has suffered a pair of technical snags. The telescope has spent its time in space precisely measuring the ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft is back to routine operations studying the Milky Way after a meteor strike punctured its protective shield, allowing charged solar particles to stream ...

"I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Night has fallen for the star-tracking European ...

After more than a decade of delivering groundbreaking discoveries from the far reaches of our galaxy, the Gaia spacecraft officially completed its mission and was shut down on March 27 due to its ...

The way an asteroid spins -- either smoothly on its axis or in a chaotic tumble -- depends on how many times it has been hit by other objects in space. At the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, ...