The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

SPHEREx begins its mission to scan hundreds of millions of galaxies, while companion satellites track solar winds.

NASA has launched a new space telescope, SPHEREx, into orbit to complement the observations of the James Webb Telescope. It ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

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

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

Launched Tuesday night from California by SpaceX, the Spherex observatory will survey the sky every six months from an orbit over Earth's poles.

Following a checkout period lasting one month, the observatory – which measures 8.5 feet tall, 10.5 feet across, and weighs 1,107 pounds – will capture a ...