On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first batch of images and data for its Euclid space telescope. The images focus ...

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

O n April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope flew aboard space shuttle Discovery, which makes this year the 35th ...

The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...

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

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.

The European Space Agency has retired its groundbreaking Gaia Spacecraft due to the depletion of its cold gas propellant.

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) has said goodbye to Gaia, its "billion star surveyor." After nearly 11 years of celestial ...