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President Trump became the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl last night, and fans had mixed reactions. Plus, ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

NASA is preparing to launch its latest space observatory, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer), a mission that promises to ...

As Emma mentioned on Wednesday, our current drive direction contains a pair of craters, “Runyon Canyon” and the larger “Rustic Canyon” (about 20 meters or 66 feet in diameter). On Wednesday, we ...

Additionally, Korea will launch SPHEREx, a space observatory jointly developed with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), next month. SPHEREx will become the world's first ...

the SPHEREx mission will be used to identify targets of interest for follow-up studies in greater detail by other observatories, including the James Webb Space Telescope. The Ball-BAE team built both ...

Whenever news of a rare celestial event makes the headlines - be it a passing comet, meteor shower or a parade of planets - it makes one wish for two things: a telescope and a pitch-black garden ...

In an extra twist, Mercury is expected to join the lineup later, briefly creating a rare seven-planet alignment. Observing all seven together will be tricky, as Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune will ...

NASA’s TESS identifies BD+05 4868 Ab, a rapidly disintegrating exoplane The planet loses mass equivalent to Earth's moon every million years Researchers to study it further using the James Webb Space ...

Dark skies in rural areas offer unmatched visibility, perfect for spotting faint planets. ‘Jeff Bezos has built a moon’: How Blue Origin created lunar gravity without leaving Earth ‘NASA’s ...