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How rare are inhabited worlds in the universe? The 'LIFE' space telescope fleet could find out
A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...
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Early galaxy seen creating clear 'bubbles' in the foggy universe
Scientists discover ancient galaxy created early transparent bubbles, challenging cosmic timeline of universe formation.
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NASA's SPHEREx telescope 'opens its eyes on the universe', taking stunning debut image of 100,000 galaxies and stars
SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...
Jeremiah Ostriker, Who Plumbed Dark Forces That Shape Universe, Dies at 87
There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of ...
NASA’s SPHEREx Sees 100,000 Galaxies at Once, and It’s Just Getting Started – “And Wow! Just Wow!”
SPHEREx, NASA’s new space telescope, just opened its eyes to the universe and delivered its very first images from space.
Scientists Spotted Evidence of an Unseen Universe—Even Though That Should Be Impossible
For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black ...
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JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel'
A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...
Euclid Captures 26 Million Galaxies in Its First Glimpse of the Dark Universe
Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...
Euclid space telescope discovers thousands of hidden dwarf galaxies
A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...
NASA's SPHEREx space telescope releases its first images on mission to map millions of galaxies
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 ...
Hubble captures a stunning cradle of stars in neighboring galaxy
The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...
NASA's SPHEREx takes first images, preps to study millions of galaxies
NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...