Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has completed its sky-scanning phase, having made over 3 trillion observations of approximately 2 billion stars and other celestial objects.

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and able to scan the sky, so it has decided to nominally end science ...

Gaia has completed the mapping phase of its mission. Since its launch in 2013, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been charting our galaxy one star at a time. In those years ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years, shut down science operations on Wednesday (Jan. 15). The close of the mission's data-collecting phase was ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...