UVEX is NASA’s next ‘Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer’ mission designed to survey the entire sky in the UV regime. The next NASA space telescope to survey the ultraviolet sky has the fingerprint of ...

The Hubble telescope peered into small patches of sky, revealing thousands of galaxies that our human eyes can’t see. Using a different technique, SPHEREx will unveil the light of hidden galaxies on a ...

TL;DR: NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has completed calibration and begun a two-year mission to map the entire night sky in 3D, capturing over 3,600 images daily. This comprehensive survey aims to ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can be very ...

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 ...

You don’t need a telescope to enjoy the night sky—not when your phone can show exactly what’s overhead. With the right app, just point your device at a patch of stars and get names instantly, or track ...

PITTSBURGH-Color images documenting the past 10 billion years of galactic evolution were distributed online this week as part of the first public release of data from a massive project to map a ...

A new quasar catalog, Quaia, containing 1.3 million quasars, has been created using data from Gaia, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Quaia provides a 3D map of ...