Scientists mistook Elon Musk's Tesla roadster for an asteroid in a debacle that highlights the problem of tracking near-Earth ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Impulse Space has designed its Helios space transport vehicle to deliver variety of payloads quickly to orbits above Lower ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Europe's leading space telescope is running low on fuel and will collect data for the last time on Wednesday. The research ...

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

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...

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