Gaia

In Greek mythology, Gaia, also spelled Gaea, is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother—sometimes parthenogenic—of all life. She is the mother of Uranus, from whose sexual union she bore the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Giants; as well as of Pontus, from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra.

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Gaia Finds Ancient Streams of Stars That Formed the Milky Way

How the songs of stars can help perfect Gaia's sweeping map of our galaxy

Gaia’s Galactic Cartography: Building the Most Detailed 3D Map of the Milky Way

Gaia’s Galactic Goldmine: Star Clusters, Cosmic Lenses, Asteroids, and Unforeseen Science

Gaia finds the Milk Way contains less dark matter than previously thought

Gaia is Now Finding Planets. Could it Find Another Earth?

Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars

Astronomers Find a Planet Using Gaia Data

Gaia Discovers a Mysterious New Type of Black Hole – And Two Are Lurking in Earth’s Cosmic Backyard

Gaia Discovers Its Second Black Hole

Gaia discovers a new family of black holes: astronomers studied the orbits of stars and noticed that some of them wobbled on the sky, as if they were gravitationally influenced by massive objects. No light could be found using telescopes, leaving only one possibility: black holes.

Amateur astronomers needed: help classify stars with Gaia's data

Closest Known Black Hole to Earth Identified Using ESA’s Gaia Astrometry Mission

The mystery of Milky Way’s satellite galaxies solved after more than 50 years. Astronomers took advantage of new data from the GAIA space observatory.

Not Just Stars. Gaia Mapped a Diverse and Shifting Universe of Variable Objects

Mysterious 'ancient heart' of the Milky Way discovered using Gaia probe

Writing Gaia review: The letters of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

ESA’s Gaia Mission Sheds New Light on Past and Future of Our Sun