For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday ...

10987. 6543. One technician. The Gopax, go CX, go punch. SearX and Putch on their way to map out our universe like never before and revolutionize space weather forecasting. We are T + 30 seconds ...

The telescope’s infrared detectors will be able to distinguish 102 colors invisible to the human eye, yielding the most colorful, inclusive map ever made of the cosmos. It’s like “looking at ...

In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of ...

(Reuters) - A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet radiation.

As a freshman at Northeast Metro Tech in Wakefield, Shelby Galex had a difficult decision to make. Galex had placed third at judo junior nationals as a fifth-grader, but her wrestling goals were ...

"The search is on and we're using all the telescopes we can to look for it." Han and his colleagues realized that this black hole must exist when they were studying so-called hypervelocity stars.