An unprecedented endeavor to plot the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy is set for liftoff early tomorrow morning from the Spaceport following today’s go-ahead for ...

Payload preparations for Arianespace’s next Soyuz launch are progressing well at the Spaceport in French Guiana, where the Gaia billion-star surveyor is receiving its sunshield for in-orbit telescope ...

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 to ...