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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 ...

to discuss a new telescope that will improve our understanding of how the universe evolved and search for key ingredients for life in our galaxy. Agency experts will preview NASA's SPHEREx ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had an impact on astronomy since ...

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 ...

"The wide-field achromatic optics are based on the famous Nagler eyepiece design used in terrestrial telescopes." One satellite carries a coronagraph, the Narrow Field Imager developed by the U.S ...

And it doesn't require a telescope, giving skywatchers the chance to witness a spectacular planetary gathering of Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Astronomy enthusiasts will get ...

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 ...