07 September 2020
A new study helps narrow the search for intelligent life
... stars in the Milky Way. Using this astrometric data from Gaia, that includes inferred distances to all the stars monitored by ... locations and distances to these additional sources [via Gaia], greatly improves our ability to constrain the prevalence...
28 November 2018
A hidden giant found lurking close to the Milky Way
...been spotted by astronomers searching through data from ESA's Gaia spacecraft and its discovery could be the tip of ... but about three orders of magnitude fainter. With the help of Gaia, which is adept at helping astronomers pick out these odd-balls ...
18 October 2021
Netherlands creates international space hotspot
...space technology to a higher level. Two multi-functional buildings, ‘Gaia & Giotto’, are being developed on the campus, offering office...parking facilities, also for e-cars and e-bikes. The GAIA building with a lettable area of 2.200 square metres will...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... enough we need an atmosphere that’s almost completely transparent. Scientists believe every watery world exists in what’s called a Gaia balance in which natural feedback loops adjust the amount of greenhouse gas so that the seas stay liquid...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... constellation, the Earth observation satellites Sentinel (European Union, ESA) and Pleiades (CNES), as well as the scientific Gaia satellite (ESA) in 2013. So far, commercial Soyuz missions have been focused on the launch of 12 satellites to MEO for...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... help us solve these challenging questions we have an exponentially increasing volume of astronomical data from surveys like ESA’s Gaia. The challenge now is to understand stars of all kinds - single, binary and multiple - to establish how they were...
