NASA and the European Space Agency launched an astronomical revolution. When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky ...

Either we are uncovering something entirely new, or we’re seeing a known type of object emitting radio and X-ray waves in a ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14.5 times each day as it images a single, circular strip of the sky. Given ...

The “National Science Foundation FY 2026 Budget Request to Congress” calls the LIGO system “the most sensitive detector of ...

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

A brilliant meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth's atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, ...

NASA launched the SPHEREx Space Observatory this year on March 25 — and the first results are in. The orange-hued image was taken at an infrared wavelength of 3.29 micrometers, capturing a cloud ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory was photographed at BAE Systems ... The advanced observatory, an 8½ foot-tall cone-shaped telescope with infrared capabilities, will create a 3D map of the ...

A space observatory designed to map the entire sky ... daily and observing the sky in an unprecedented 102 wavelengths of infrared light. Its observations will eventually be combined to create ...

Launched on March 11, NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six ... with rainbow colors representing the infrared wavelengths the telescope’s detectors see. The view from one ...

Astronomical observations with the James Webb Space Telescope support the hypothesis that the first pronounced structures in ...