Astronomers have found more than 350 possible moons around asteroids by analyzing data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. While asteroids known to have moons, also known as binary asteroids, have been studied by Gaia before, this is the first time the telescope has been used to discover new binary asteroids.
Of the trillions of stars scattered throughout the universe, one of the most common are…
On June 13, the third major data release from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia…
Europe’s galactic survey spacecraft, Gaia, recently arrived at its deep space location, ahead of conducting its…
An Arianespace Soyuz ST-B rocket successfully launched the impressive Gaia space observatory from the Kourou…
