Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future. Each year, according to Nasa, a chunk of rock the size of a car hurtles through space on a collision course with our ...

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet tall. Now, U.S. and Egyptian archaeologists have announced the ...

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They wanted to find a way to prevent Gaia from drifting back towards its former home near the scientifically valuable second Lagrange point (L2) of the Sun-Earth system and minimize any potential ...

Story continues below this ad Gaia was positioned in the Lagrange point 2 (L2), around 1.5 million kilometres ‘behind’ the Earth, when viewed from the Sun. This effectively allows the spacecraft to ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades ...

Why – because our world needs our help. Nature gives us so much, from the food we eat to the air we breathe; it keeps us healthy and thriving. WWF’s Earth Hour is the perfect moment to switch off and ...

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Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappé was pleasantly surprised by how "handsome" his wax statue is that will soon stand at London's Madame Tussauds. The France captain recently traveled to London to ...

Gaia has been peering into the universe from a stable orbit 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth called the second Lagrange point. But the neighborhood has been getting more crowded ...

Related: Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping For example, the team needed to move the probe from its science orbit at the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 2 ...

But its legacy lives on. Rendering of the Gaia telescope in space.Credit...ESA/ATG medialab; ESO, via S. Brunier Supported by By Katrina Miller From ancient star streams to the innards of white ...