An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space ...

Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.

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"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post ...

Workers in Chile are making progress on the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission, set to launch in February 2025, will utilize an advanced infrared telescope to map the entire sky in ...

NASA prepares to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope surpassing James Webb's capabilities in certain aspects. With a ...