A brand new NASA space observatory, SPHEREx, has taken its first test images a few weeks after its launch on March 11, and ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory, launched on March 11, 2025, has activated its detectors and delivered its first images from space ...

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

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Discovered late last year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 was predicted at one point to have a 3% chance of smacking Earth in 2032.

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the largest astronomical project in existence — astronomers were able to peel ...

Trottier Observatory and Science Courtyard is celebrating ten years of space exploration this spring with an all-ages ...