The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar system, announced the discovery on May 21. At roughly 435 miles wide, 2017 ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

The history of the universe is outlined in this infographic. CREDIT: NASA In addition to red-shift observations, astronomers past and present also rely on “standard candles” to assess the size ...

Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

This infographic describes the High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey that will be conducted by NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman ... potentially back to when the universe was around a billion years old.

"Our spacecraft has opened its eyes on the universe," said Olivier Doré, a SPHEREx project scientist at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the news release. "It's performing just as ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team ... cosmic exploration that will revolutionize our understanding of the universe. "Roman's setting out to do wide, deep surveys of the universe ...

If you've been scrolling through social media recently, you might have stumbled upon sensational claims resurging about NASA discovering a parallel universe in Antarctica. According to the claims ...

according to NASA. Infrared instruments in space are ideal for piercing through dust and gas to see some of the universe’s oldest stars and galaxies, which would otherwise be obscured from view.

The JWST has confirmed the Hubble's estimates of the rate of expansion of the universe. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image of the Coma galaxy cluster (main) and stock image of the James Webb ...