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

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

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

SPHEREx is somewhat similar to the Webb telescope as it also observes the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the eye but can be felt as heat. With its six detectors, it can break down ...

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

NASA's SPHEREx observatory has started capturing its initial images, paving the way for a comprehensive study of millions of ...

NASA has put its recently launched SPHEREx space telescope into operation. The scientific mission is due to begin at the end ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...

Estimated to be 2.6 billion times the mass of the Sun, this monstrous void has reignited debates about the mysterious forces ...

Stars are born from vast clouds of gas and dust, known as nebulae, that are scattered throughout most galaxies. Over thousands to millions of years ...

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's Era of Reionization may have occurred much earlier than previously thought.