NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

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NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

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Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

During a testing phase in September 2023, Euclid snapped this image of the galaxy NGC 6505. Further investigation revealed that the telescope had captured a strong gravitational lens called an ...

Using data from the Euclid Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a stunning 2,674 dwarf galaxies, the study of which could help better understand cosmic evolution.

Euclid, which launched in July 2023 and began collecting data in February 2024, aims to map the large-scale structure of the universe. Understanding this structure through the shapes, sizes and ...