NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Why it made the cut: This mount offers a great balance of portability and maneuverability while also being great at ...

The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.

The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star-forming region within a nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 180 thousand light-years away ...

The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by ...

building upon a decade of previous studies conducted using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and a wealth of ground-based observatories. "We can compare our previous ...

A new kind of space telescope has embarked on a two-year mission to create four complete maps of the entire celestial sky that will catalog the origins of the universe and seek out the ingredients ...