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 ...

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

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing ...

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 ...

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

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

The White House plans to terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ... to $1.9 billion. No telescope other than the extant ...

A new NASA space telescope has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing its first light in images that contain ...