NASA’s latest space telescope has officially begun its mission—and it’s already proving to be a powerful new eye on the universe. The SPHEREx observatory, launched on March 11, has taken its very ...

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx, which is short ...

Named after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey that first detected it, 3I/ATLAS includes the “I ...

Once, there was a time before stars. In the primordial darkness, after the Big Bang, nothing drifted but a vast sea of hydrogen and helium. It wasn't until stars came along, born from crushing ...

Solar winds can disrupt electronics on Earth. A new satellite will help us study these storms. (Courtesy NASA) SPACE (KXAN) — NASA is creating a map of the universe. On Friday, two satellites will ...

NASA’s SPHEREx, which will map hundreds of millions of galaxies across the entire sky, captured one of its first exposures March 27. The observatory’s six detectors each captured one of these ...

NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories -- the Spitzer Space Telescope -- after 16 years of scanning the universe with infrared eyes. The end comes Thursday when ground controllers ...

NASA has used the James Webb Space Telescope to better understand the universe just after the Big Bang. The results have ...

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch into orbit, astronomers aimed the legendary telescope at a selection of photogenic space targets, stretching from inside ...