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.

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

Astronomers have peered back to a time when the universe was just less than 300 million years old. The research team, using JWST revealed something extraordinary in the galaxy: significant amounts of ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

On Oct. 1, 1847, at age 29, Maria Mitchell, a studious and sturdy Quaker who, as a child, began sweeping the sky above ...

Lior Shamir, a computer scientist in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, published a study of ...

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was ...

University of Arizona astronomers have uncovered insights into a mature galaxy that existed nearly 300 million years after ...

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

The asteroid everyone was worried about won't hit Earth. Better news: Folks working in Baltimore will help us learn more ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured breathtaking new imagery of Lynds 483, a star-forming region located 650 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Serpens. At the heart of L483, two ...