SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

At Vandenberg Space Force Base, preparations are underway for a mission to send a NASA telescope into space. NASA officials say the two-year-long SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the ...

An ambitious NASA mission to map the sky in 3D using a space-based observatory now has a target launch date of late February 2025. Using the sky map, SPHEREx has three scientific goals to achieve.

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has just completed an extraordinary feat: it has mapped the entire sky over Earth in stunning detail. This remarkable achievement marks a significant milestone in the mission ...

LOS ANGELES - NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard ...

No need for hyperdrive: Scientists have released an “expansion pack” for a virtual tour of the universe that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own computer. The latest version of the publicly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just nine months since its launch, NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a jaw-dropping map of the cosmos unlike any we have ...

This WISE image shows dust speckling the Andromeda galaxy's spiral arms. The hot dust, heated by newborn stars, outlines the thin arms to the center of the galaxy. This dense cluster of galaxies, ...

Astronomers using data from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies outside ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia is ...

The sky map of the Faraday effect caused by the magnetic fields of the Milky Way. Red and blue colors indicate regions of the sky where the magnetic field points toward and away from the observer, ...