Launched Tuesday night from California by SpaceX, the Spherex observatory will survey the sky every six months from an orbit over Earth's poles.

Following a checkout period lasting one month, the observatory – which measures 8.5 feet tall, 10.5 feet across, and weighs 1,107 pounds – will capture a ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.

SpaceX and NASA are set for the launch of the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission. A Falcon 9 will ...

"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets ...

Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called the Oort Cloud mimic the ...

Born in Leeds, Joe finished his Spanish degree in 2018 before becoming an English teacher to football (soccer) players and managers, as well as collaborating with various football media outlets in ...

This program forms part of NASA’s Artemis program, and their Astrobotic’s Lunar Vertical Solar Array program. These programs are part of a broader objective to provide sustainable power on the moon.

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.

NASA’s New Horizons Mission has a dust detector actively picking up on particles in the Kuiper belt that might have been leftovers from the formation of our Solar System. The Oort cloud is even ...