Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx to use its ...