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

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

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

The space-based observatory, launched at the end of March, released its first set of images, in which a cloud of dust ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins his first-ever spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Oct. 28, 2015. Credit: Kjell Lindgren / NASA Before NASA shot astronaut Scott Kelly into orbit ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts and scientists were not present at the Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX-2025) in Delhi, likely a result of the budgets cuts ...

NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as next year in an effort to expedite its plan to land astronauts on the Red Planet. The surprise shift of focus comes less than a week ...

If watching rocket launches and other cosmic news is your thing, you now have a new way to keep up with everything NASA. The U.S. space agency announced that its streaming service, NASA+ ...

The gigantic space rock, which NASA compares to the size of a stadium, has a diameter of about 950 feet It may not be on a menacing trajectory, but it will still come close enough to Earth to ...