The James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument shows the Centaurus A galaxy's weird glowing shapes at its core.
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have attached the telescope to the flight base frame of NEO Surveyor, the ...
Earlier visible-light observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could not show the galaxy's central region because dust ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How did the universe begin? How do planets form and galaxies develop? Could life exist anywhere else in the cosmos? Questions that ...
It is 20 years ago this year that Europe, in collaboration with the United States, launched the first infrared observatory into space. Its infrared powers revealed a secret universe that, to this day, ...
NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor — the agency's first purpose-built infrared space telescope designed specifically to detect ...
The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) arrived today at the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for its launch next month aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. The observatory was ...
Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space observatory will provide astronomers with a big-picture view of the cosmos ...
Last week, NASA decommissioned a nearly 15-year-old spacecraft that discovered 400 near-Earth asteroids and comets, closing an important chapter in the agency’s planetary defense program. From its ...
When you look at the night sky, do you ever wonder what's going on out there? On a clear night with a dark sky, if moonlight doesn't wash it out, sometimes you can see the arc of the Milky Way. The ...
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects―the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, ...