NASA has taken to the skies with a groundbreaking new tool designed to uncover critical minerals that power modern technology ...

AVIRIS-5 is one of the newest tools in a joint research project from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) called GEMx. The project is designed to search for surface traces of critical minerals, ...

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory maps the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, enabling 3D galaxy distribution studies, cosmic ...

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In collaboration with NASA, Japan's XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has provided an early glimpse into the hidden X-ray sky via the unprecedented data it will collect when ...

NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer ( SPHEREx) was launched ...

Aug. 22 (UPI) --Scientists hope an upcoming space launch will help them understand more about the warping of spacetime. NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency's ...

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced that an imaging spectrometer, developed by NASA JPL, has been handed off to its team for ...

This is a close-up view of the “spectrometer-on-a-chip” technology that could dramatically reduce the size of spectrometers in the future. (Credit: NASA Goddard/Chris Gunn) The Composite Infrared ...

In research that has all the makings of a blockbuster movie — with interstellar chemistry, million-year timescales, and high-powered lasers — Princeton chemists are expanding our understanding of the ...