NASA's SPHEREx telescope launched aboard a SpaceX rocket to map the entire sky in infrared light, capturing the cosmic glow of galaxies.

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

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

Astronomers at the University of Arizona have discovered more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed at a time when ...

Astronomers have found an unexpectedly bright and chemically complex galaxy from the first 300 million years of the ...

Astronomers have discovered the smallest dwarf galaxy ever seen. It is a mystery how the satellite galaxy of Andromeda ...

Riding with SPHEREx aboard the Falcon 9 were four small satellites that make up the agency's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

Researchers have identified a galaxy that existed when the universe was less than 300 million years old. This galaxy, known ...

A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found ...

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 ...