SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, ...

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In a nutshell A galaxy from just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been caught emitting a specific type of light ...

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway.

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking ...

We're back! A long-time reader and subscriber recently mentioned in the Ars Forums that they "kind of" missed the Daily Telescope posts that I used to write in 2023 and 2024. Although I would have ...

"Our data indicates that the Universe will expand forever, and at an accelerating rate," said Sehgal, who analyzed data ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

These particles are so ghostly that trillions of them pass through Earth each day without notice. So, how do we detect them?