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

SPHEREx stands for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer.

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

From the outside, a planetarium and an observatory might look a somewhat similar, but it's what's inside that counts.

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

Check out a big model of Saturn and a piece of the heat shield from the Space Shuttle at the Adirondack Sky Center.

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

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking ...

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

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its retirement orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more ...