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

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...

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

Scientists made the claim after analysing the data collected by the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia spacecraft.

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they ...