NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets and enabling 3D mapping of galaxies.

This morning, the European Space Agency unveiled a new, highly detailed sky map of the Milky Way Galaxy that showcases the brightness and positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars. It’s the most ...

WASHINGTON — Despite budget cuts and programmatic changes that delayed its launch more than a year, NASA’s new asteroid-hunting space telescope rolled out to the pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, ...

NASA's SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, revealing hidden details about galaxies and the early universe.

Astronomers can map the sky in many ways: observing in different regions of the elecromagnetic specrum, obtaining specra of stars and galaxies to determine their physical properties and distances, and ...

A sea ofstars takes center stage in the very first photo released from NASA?s newestspace telescope built to map the entire sky. About 3,000stars are visible in the new sky image from the Wide-field ...

That's from one team's examination of just one-quarter of the northern sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Millions of new ...

In the real world, humanity has spent the last few days celebrating our first real look at a black hole. No Man’s Sky players who traverse galaxies in search of adventure are well beyond that point, ...

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.

A sea of stars takes center stage in the very first photo released from NASA's newest space telescope built to map the entire sky. About 3,000 stars are visible in the new sky image from the ...

Long before satellite navigation and GPS, explorers were already setting their sights toward space. Since we first saw the night sky, humanity has been fascinated by the stars. Over thousands of years ...

Sappho's "Midnight Poem" describes the night sky over Greece, which has allowed astronomers to accurately calculate when it was written. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...