NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not.

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to begin U.S. Spacewalk 92 early Jan. 30. Suni Williams and ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

According to NASA's SPHEREx mission details, the observatory will survey the entire sky using near-infrared light. Its goals include exploring how galaxies evolved, understanding the structure of the ...

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

In January of 2025, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released this panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...