SPHEREx's new images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...

NASA’s latest space telescope has officially begun its mission—and it’s already proving to be a powerful new eye on the ...

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping street on the outskirts of ...

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"We are seeing the first steps towards making the earliest stars and galaxies," she said. "And we're not just seeing light and dark, we're seeing the polarization of light in high resolution.