A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke about their return to earth after being stranded in space for 286 days.

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

While the responsibility for issues that left him and Suni Williams stranded on the ISS can be found "throughout the chain", ...

NASA’s latest space telescope has officially begun its mission—and it’s already proving to be a powerful new eye on the ...

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has sent back its first infrared images from space, confirming it is fully operational. The mission aims to scan millions of galaxies and explore cosmic origins.

Each image was taken by a different detector on the telescope, NASA said. All of the images show the same area of the sky, NASA said. The colorful images are flecked with bright spots, which NASA ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...

The Lyrids, born from the debris of Comet Thatcher, can best be seen between April 16-25, delivering around 15 meteors per ...