A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

In this video narrated by Elizabeth Landau, hear how NASA’s SPHEREx mission will map the entire sky in over 100 infrared colors, combining a wide field of view with spectral imaging to explore the ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

The night sky is the window to the rest of our universe but it’s also great for lovers. It’s great being in the dark with the ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

Such a vast view of the sky is intended to allow astronomers to ... SPHEREx is short for short for: Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer.

The driest place on Earth is the best place to observe the universe, with darkness offering dazzling spectacles of cosmic ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.