On May 14, 2009, Ariane 5 blasted off with two particularly distinguished passengers on bo...
The Herschel space telescope had two main objectives: infra-red observation of the univers...
Approximately 7.5m high and 4m wide, weighing around three metric tons, and equipped with ...
Planck was designed to analyze the remnants of the radiation that filled the universe imme...
It was a textbook-perfect launch that day in 2009. In its 44th launch and its 30th success...
Lagrangian points are gravitational stability points suspended in space. L2 is located 1.5...
A spacecraft orbiting around that point is able to conduct continuous observations in a th...
Combining observations of the distant universe made by Herschel and Planck, cosmologists h...