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

The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light years.

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

One striking piece of evidence comes from the coffin of a woman named Ankh, which includes a detailed painting of a goddess stretching across the lid. Many scholars now believe this goddess represents ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

This hint was chased up by the European Space Agency's (ESA) star-tracking space telescope Gaia while it was building a detailed 3D map of 2 billion stars in the Milky Way. This revealed the ...

SPHEREx begins mapping the sky in infrared, exploring the universe’s origins and life’s building blocks across the Milky Way.

Evan Shwartz introduces the first installation of something special, "In this series about astrophotography in Alameda, we will look at pictures of galaxies, nebulae, planets, and celestial events ...

A group of experts has found several images of an ancient Egyptian civilization in which there are representations of the Milky Way. They were ... its own Google Maps for astronauts World NewsEta ...

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First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, appears to be ionized ... which matches the observed ionization profile quite well. Using ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...