In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

Using a telescope at Kitt Peak, scientists have produced the largest 3D map of the universe ever made and uncovered ...

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

A GPS-enabled platform can also use Raptor software as a backup in the event of a jammed signal, since it lives onboard the ...

Satellite imagery company Maxar has unveiled new software that it says can provide drone crews with accurate, real-time ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Europe's space agency, ESA, has retired the Gaia satellite after more than nine years of service. Launched in 2013, Gaia ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

After more than a decade of service, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down for good—closing one ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Herbig-Haro 49/50, aka the 'Cosmic Tornado', as seen by Spitzer in January 2006. The source of the 'tornado', a Class 1 ...