The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from onboard Apollo 17 while headed to the Moon. This was the first time that an ...

The instrument uses the Doppler effect to create real-time, 3D maps of wind patterns above the Earth’s surface, which historically has been difficult to capture.

The SPHEREx mission will map the universe in both optical and near-infrared light. In the month since arriving at its orbit ...

American space agency NASA announced the start of ops or the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

SPHEREx begins mapping the sky in infrared, exploring the universe’s origins and life’s building blocks across the Milky Way.

Discover how nearly two decades of satellite data—and the new Biomass mission—are helping scientists map forest carbon across ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower in 2025 is an astronomical phenomenon that is active from April 15 and will remain until May 27, reaching its peak during the night of May 5 to 6 In f ...

A 10-billion light-year structure closer to Earth than expected is rewriting cosmic theories. Discover how gamma-ray bursts ...

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

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

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers annually.

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...