In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...

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NASA's Chandra telescope was used to uncover the explosive past of an ancient dead star through 'space archaeology.' ...

The space observatory can effectively peer back in time to the beginning of a mysterious era called Cosmic Dawn, or the first few hundred million years after the big bang when the first galaxies ...

Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...

NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), a pioneering infrared telescope platform, is meeting its end as it is dismantled at ...

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, ...

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After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Reimers Observatory has offered a space for visitors to view starry skies and participate in various educational programming.