Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

The telescope will map the sky in 102 infrared colors, and the data it collects will shed light on the origins of the ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

SPHEREx will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies, as well as search the Milky Way for water and organic molecules essentials for life as we know it.

NASA has launched a new space telescope, SPHEREx, into orbit to complement the observations of the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Gravitational lensing often evokes images of a cosmic funhouse mirror: duplicated galaxies, dramatic arcs and distorted shapes. But the web-like, large-scale structure throughout the universe also ...

Called SPHEREx, the instrument will map 450 million galaxies and search for water molecules that may be clinging to space dust ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

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