According to NASA's SPHEREx mission details, the observatory will survey the entire sky using near-infrared light. Its goals include exploring how galaxies evolved, understanding the structure of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune. It is the "clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years,” according to ...

On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...

A mysterious fast radio burst from a dead galaxy challenges theories, hinting at unknown cosmic forces producing powerful ...

In January of 2025, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released this panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the ...

Japan's government has been considering joining a U.S.-led space telescope initiative to search for Earth-like planets and extraterrestrial life, aiming to contribute technology and secure key ...

The most powerful telescope in history. The James Webb Space Telescope's "jewel-filled" photos are stunning. Marketing health ...

James Webb recently peered at an alien world that could harbor alien life. What impact would such a seismic discovery have on ...

"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...

Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...

Astronomers have discovered HD 20794 d, a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star just 20 light-years away. This ...

This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as ...