The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

The entire solar system, ours at least, sits inside a pocket of low density called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This cavity in space is 1,000 light-years across, at least, and tips the thermometer at ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Tuesday (March 4) is shaping up to be a delightful day for space explorers, as not one but two major NASA missions are expected to take to the skies — and interestingly, though the spacecraft ...

Following a checkout period lasting one month, the observatory – which measures 8.5 feet tall, 10.5 feet across, and weighs 1 ...

"PUNCH is going to provide an unprecedented three-dimensional view of the corona as it turns into the solar wind and fills our solar system," Nicholeen ... polarimetric star map ever made, which ...

The cameras are equipped with polarizing filters, similar to polarized sunglasses, that enable them to make maps of features in the corona and across the solar system. Together, the four ...

US solar facilities lost $5,720 per megawatt in 2024, with global losses from equipment failures and extreme weather reaching ...

SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...