When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, ...

How did the universe begin? How do planets form and galaxies develop? Could life exist anywhere else in the cosmos? Questions that have long eluded astronomers could finally be answered with the ...

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.

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

In the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, the universe ballooned outward at a speed that still defies explanation, stretching space itself before stars or even atoms had a chance to form.

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared wavelengths of light are ...

Although we have a gaggle of space telescopes floating around these days, there is still a lot of value in ground-based telescopes. These generally operate in the visible light spectrum, but infrared ...

NASA’s decision to shut down a $1 billion infrared space telescope, even as it continued to send back spectacular images, was not an act of scientific indifference but a hard calculation about risk, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has been helping scientists explore the cosmos for years now, but there are still plenty of unknown facts about the device.

The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) arrived today at the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for its launch next month aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. The observatory was ...

A zero pressure NASA balloon in Antarctica of the type that could be used by the LSU-led team would use to study nearby red dwarf stars. Some 75 percent of all stars in the solar neighborhood are ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA plans next month to launch a space telescope that will scan the heavens for the infrared glow of celestial objects never seen because they are too dim, dusty or distant, ...