(Credit: NASA) Within the Earth-Sun system, there are five Lagrange points (L1 – L5), of which L2 is currently the home of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and was the home to previous ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The $10 billion dollar space observatory was undergoing what we thought were its final tests before being packaged up and sent on its way to its forever home at the L2 Lagrange point. Sadly ...

The L2 Lagrange Point Eighteenth-century Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange was the first to identify points in space where the gravitational tugs of two bodies are in balance.

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

This intricate mathematical conundrum, known as the "General Three-Body Problem," captivated Lagrange's mind. Among these points, three teeter on the edge of instability - L1, L2, and L3 - aligned ...

Future telescopes like James Webb and Gaia face hurdles in maintenance due to their remote location at the Lagrange Point L2, nearly a million miles from Earth. James Webb’s segmented mirrors ...

L2 is one of five “Lagrangian points” around Earth and the Sun where gravitational conditions make for a nice, stable orbit. L2 is located 1.5 million kilometres from Earth on the “dark side ...