Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's hidden secrets.

Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion ...

Gaia built on unique European excellence in astrometry and will leave a long-lasting legacy for future generations." “After 11 years in space and surviving micrometeorite impacts and solar ...

Please refer back to this repository when using this code in your work. If you use the TGAS selection-function code in gaia_tools.select.tgasSelect, please cite Bovy (2017). This package should work ...