Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...

In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space telescope epic ... to extend the mission — SPHEREx will map the universe while detecting two kinds of cosmic ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

Short for “Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer”, the NASA ... a map of the entire sky in 3D, by capturing images in every direction. It is ...

Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the universe.

Over two years — unless NASA decides to extend the mission — SPHEREx will map the universe while detecting two kinds of cosmic light: optical and infrared. Optical light is visible to the human eye, ...

NASA is launching a new space telescope more powerful than its James Webb counterpart which will be able to shed more light ...

With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes ... The solar sail for NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Scout, a robotic reconnaissance mission designed to fly by asteroids, easily fits ...

Listen to Story The observatory will measure the collective glow from galaxies Scientists will also use SPHEREx to make the most colourful all-sky map ever The telescope can split the light into its ...