Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia is ...

ESA released the photos of Gaia Observatory's deep space scans and provided the world with a look at NASA's James Webb Telescope, its neighbor orbiter, that it saw in space. The spacecraft is 620,000 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) first launched the Gaia project back in 2013 with the intention of collecting more precise data about as many of the stars in and beyond our galaxy as possible. In fact ...

The James Webb Space Telescope doesn’t orbit the Earth as the Hubble Space Telescope does. Instead, it orbits the sun in a position called the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, where it can ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and its Gaia space observatory recently faced an unexpected challenge. Over a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, this technological marvel was struck by ...

Recent data helps us understand a phenomenon called gravitational lensing and reveals star-packed parts of the sky normally too faint to see. A decade ago, the Gaia space mission was launched by the ...

There are nearly 2 billion stars in our galaxy. At least that's what the most current map shows. Astronomers have mapped the most extensive atlas of our Milky Way galaxy yet, including the positions ...

Scientists have detected an exoplanet racing through space at 1.2 million mph, making it the fastest known planet. The Neptune-sized world orbits a hypervelocity star, first hinted at in 2011 via ...