Thales Alenia Space has signed a € 16.5 m contract with prime contractor OHB System AG to provide the Propulsion Subsystem for European Space Agency's LISA- mission.

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, Chinese astronomers have investigated the structure of a nearby open cluster ...

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to ...

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of ...

Now, according to new research published in Science, astronomers have managed to weigh a rogue planet for the first time. The ...

The Milky Way could be called “the Neutrino Way.” Its stars produce vast numbers of the subatomic particles. Now, scientists have calculated how many of them should be streaming down onto Earth from ...

Gaia(NASDAQ: GAIA) – the world’s largest streaming and community platform dedicated to personal transformation, health, wellness, and spirituality – announced today that a new weekly original series ...

The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 Earth masses. Its distance away from us comes out to about 9,950–10,000 ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rogue planet, one that doesn’t orbit a star, by measuring both its mass and distance. The planet, roughly the size of Saturn, was ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift alone through the Milky Way. Astronomers call these objects free-floating ...

Planets are usually defined by the star they orbit. Take away the star, and a planet becomes almost impossible to find. This is because almost every method astronomers use to detect planets depends on ...