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

Answer: For near stars, astronomers use a method called parallax. During Earth’s orbit, near stars seem to shift their position against the farther stars. This is called parallax shift. By ...

The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the ...

"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 ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a ...

American space agency NASA launched on March 11 the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

Weather has delayed NASA’s launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

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 ...

The space telescope, which NASA has spent years developing, launched Tuesday night from California following ... will create a 3D map of the entire celestial sky every six months.