Best known for its surveys of the stars and mapping the Milky Way, ESA’s Gaia mission has many more strings to its bow. Among them, helping us to know more about the asteroids that litter our Solar System. Now, for the first time, Gaia is not only providing information crucial on known asteroids, it’s also started to look for new ones… http://sci.esa.int/gaia/58706-gaia-turns-its-eyes-to-asteroid-hunting/
