Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail ... identified by shocks and star formation in its wake” by PI Pieter Von Dokkum et al. Schematic illustration of the runaway ...

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope sent back incredible image data that would change the world of astronomy. As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how ...

SPHEREx will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies, as well as search the Milky Way for water and organic molecules essentials for life as we know it. NASA's newest space telescope has launched ...

If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. Each satellite carries a camera, which acts like a synchronized, single, virtual instrument with ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

as the telescope circles the globe from pole to pole 400 miles up. Spherex won't see galaxies in exquisite detail like NASA's larger and more elaborate Hubble and Webb space telescopes ...

The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a hundred colors that are invisible to the human eye. Accompanying the telescope ...