The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

No telescope other than the extant Hubble and Webb telescopes will be funded, including the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...

SPHEREx stands for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer.

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope ...

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s new space telescope, just opened its eyes to the universe and delivered its very first images from space.

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Billed as the "World's Largest Astronomy & Space Expo," NEAF 2025 draws thousands of stargazers each year, with astronauts ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed annual budget for NASA next year would nearly cut in half the agency’s science funding, ...

According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive ...