"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.

This artist concept depicts a reconstruction of what the Firefly Sparkle galaxy looked like about 600 million years after the big bang if it wasn’t stretched and distorted by a natural effect known as ...

NASA, alongside SpaceX, is making strides with a crucial crew-swap mission to the International Space Station, marking a ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

She broke barriers at NASA and contributed to its earliest space missions as a rocket scientist, mathematician and computer programmer. Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger ...