The Hubble telescope peered into small patches of sky, revealing thousands of galaxies that our human eyes can’t see. Using a different technique, SPHEREx will unveil the light of hidden galaxies on a ...

Three years into its cosmic mission, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope continues to dazzle and inspire awe. Since July 2022, the advanced observatory has scoured the cosmos in otherwise invisible ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

Compelling signs of past Martian life and potential biosignatures on exoplanets have emerged. New planets near Earth were ...

Every year, all telescopes on Earth and in space combined discover around 20,000 new asteroids. In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or in ...

Behold the golden-orange horizon over Kitt Peak National Observatory, a fiery twilight moment where day bows out and the stars prepare their grand entrance. Captured by NOIRLab, this sunset reveals ...

Our planet is surrounded by a halo of ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye, a celestial phenomenon that scientists have been trying to understand for over half a century. This enigmatic glow, ...

The 2025 NASA budget points to the beginning of the end for one of the agency’s longest-living space telescopes. Just a few months shy of turning 25, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may soon be no ...

To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it to deploy and extend a critical part of the observatory known as the Deployable Tower ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Limitless Space Institute (LSI) is thrilled to announce an out-of-this-world partnership with Dusk Observatories, aimed at inspiring and educating students by ...

BAE Systems says it has successfully delivered the “SPHEREx” space observatory to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, ahead of a planned launch in late February. Short for “Spectro-Photometer ...