A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, situated 100 million light-years from Earth in the Leo Minor constellation.

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

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

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The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

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BAE Systems is celebrating the successful launch of NASA's SPHEREx Observatory from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ...

W. M. Keck Observatory’s laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) system uses a laser to create an artificial star to measure for atmospheric distortions. This results in sharp, high-resolution ...