On Friday (Jan 17), just a day after India successfully docked two satellites in space, the Indian Space Research ...

Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia catalog (eDR3). The upper part shows a region where the Palomar 5 star cluster and its tidal tails are observed (DESI Legacy Imaging ...

Pakistan launched its first home-made observation satellite on Friday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China, Pakistan's space agency said. The PRSC-EO1 satellite will boost ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Satellite images provide one way to get a sense of the devastating impact of the war on the Gaza Strip ...

Observations of WASP-132 are not over yet, however, as ESA’s Gaia satellite has been measuring the minute variations in the positions of stars since 2014, with an aim to reveal their planetary ...

India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully docked a pair of satellites, making the nation the fourth to achieve the feat. The Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) commenced on December ...

Launched on December 19, 2013, the fuel tank of ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia is now approaching empty, but this is far from the end of the mission. Technology tests are scheduled for the weeks ...

Although Earth is saying goodbye to the spacecraft this year, Gaia’s observations will result in two more data releases by 2030. On 27 March this year, the European Space Agency (ESA ...

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Thirteen years ago, a satellite acquired this beautiful image (above) of light and sand playing off a portion of the ocean floor in the Bahamas. The caption that accompanied the image didn’t include ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 years of mapping the Milky Way.