On March 27 — 15 days after its launch — SPHEREx saw its first light, proving its instruments performed as designed. This ...

At the heart of SPHEREx lies cutting-edge technology designed to capture the full spectrum of infrared light. Unlike traditional telescopes, SPHEREx employs six advanced detectors, each specializing ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

Scientists have discovered where Earth's water comes from, and say that it wasn't brought to the planet by asteroid impacts ...

An international team of astronomers has found that super-Earth exoplanets are far more common across the universe than once ...

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the early moments of the universe. But our star ... Because of this, the origin of its chemical composition is difficult to trace accurately.

ACT's data sheds light on the formation of the first galaxies ... to unraveling the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, which dominate the composition of the Universe.

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

The Hubble Telescope, 35 years of groundbreaking discoveries, continues to surprise despite glitches, retirement risk, and ...