The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...

The ESA will conduct technology tests for several weeks after Gaia’s observations end, before the spacecraft leaves its orbit ...

A renewed rivalry between the United States and China in space exploration has placed special focus on Lagrange points.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first attempt by Jeff Bezos’s private space company, Blue Origin, to launch a rocket into orbit will ...

In order to contribute to the source code, open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub page for this library. Beginning with version 0.2.0, the version number format for this library and the ...

The spacecraft was placed into a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth system’s first Lagrange point, L1. The satellite around the L1 point has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without ...

ISRO) marked another remarkable milestone with the successful launch of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission ...

NASA and SpaceX have rescheduled the launch of the IMAP spacecraft to September 2025 to allow more time for preparing its ...

Unlike traditional space telescopes, which are hindered by Earth’s interference, Aditya-L1 is stationed at a unique halo orbit around the L1 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.

And while risks to astronauts may be a top concern, congestion in orbit is also hazardous to satellites ... And it’s not clear if that point has been reached. The researchers interviewed for ...