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

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...

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

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

On March 27, ESA commanded Gaia to use its thrusters for the final time, pushing the spacecraft into a "retirement orbit" ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially retired its Gaia spacecraft, after over ten years of data collection on our ...

The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, has been deactivated and placed in a "retirement orbit" around the sun after mapping nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to come.

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement orbit" around the Sun on Thursday, the European Space Agency said. Since ...