Payload preparations for Arianespace’s next Soyuz launch are progressing well at the Spaceport in French Guiana, where the Gaia billion-star surveyor is receiving its sunshield for in-orbit telescope ...
An unprecedented endeavor to plot the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy is set for liftoff early tomorrow morning from the Spaceport following today’s go-ahead for ...
In the eleventh year of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gaia space telescope has suffered a pair of technical snags. The telescope has spent its time in space precisely measuring the ...
A new study published in Science marks the first time astronomers have directly measured the mass of a rogue planet, a ...
The European Space Agency's Gaia telescope revealed half a million newfound stars, and detailed the orbits of over 150,000 asteroids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...