NASA is targeting late February to launch a new mission to survey hundreds of millions of galaxies to explore the origins of the universe The mission ...

NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

By now you’ve likely either heard or maybe caught a glimpse of a rare astronomical phenomenon known as a “planetary parade.” ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission is gearing up for an exciting journey aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aiming to uncover the mysteries ...

cartoon illustration of Galaxy milky Way, planets with names in order from sun. Astronomy, planetary, discovery, science concept, education template uranus clipart stock illustrations Solar system ...

(RNS) — When you look into the night sky, the naked eye can only make out 2,500 to 3,000 stars, five planets and maybe ... a gas or star cluster in the Milky Way was actually another galaxy ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more differences in temperature anywhere, which means thermodynamics shuts down, ...

Adam Leroy, a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Henry Draper Medal.