For centuries, astronomers used the stars to tell stories, make predictions, and even find their way. All of which depended ...

UVEX is NASA’s next ‘Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer’ mission designed to survey the entire sky in the UV regime. The next NASA space telescope to survey the ultraviolet sky has the fingerprint of ...

At Vandenberg Space Force Base, preparations are underway for a mission to send a NASA telescope into space. NASA officials say the two-year-long SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the ...

TL;DR: NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has completed calibration and begun a two-year mission to map the entire night sky in 3D, capturing over 3,600 images daily. This comprehensive survey aims to ...

The Hubble telescope peered into small patches of sky, revealing thousands of galaxies that our human eyes can’t see. Using a different technique, SPHEREx will unveil the light of hidden galaxies on a ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s ...

No need for hyperdrive: Scientists have released an “expansion pack” for a virtual tour of the universe that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own computer. The latest version of the publicly ...

NASA has begun taking 3,600 unique images each day to create a new map of the cosmos with its newly-launched SPHEREx ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can be very ...

Astronomers using data from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies outside ...

A new quasar catalog, Quaia, containing 1.3 million quasars, has been created using data from Gaia, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Quaia provides a 3D map of ...