Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

"Planetary-mass objects don't fit neatly into existing categories of stars or planets." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body ...

Existing technologies for thinner lenses often come at a premium price, as seen in the additional cost of strong prescription eyeglasses. Menon’s solution is focused on larger-scale lenses used in ...

Utah researchers demonstrated the capabilities of their flat lens with test images of the sun and moon. Credit: Menon Lab, University of Utah A team of scientists at the University of Utah has ...

Update: NASA is now targeting a launch for Friday, March 7. Find the latest information on the mission here. How did the universe begin? How do planets form and galaxies develop? Could life exist ...

Editor’s Note (3/10/25): After a week of delays, NASA is hoping to launch SPHEREx and PUNCH on March 10 at 11:10 P.M. EDT, officials wrote in a statement. NASA is ready to launch a space ...

"Like finding a snowball that hasn't melted in a fire." But only once have they found an "ultra-hot Neptune" — a Neptune-size world orbiting extremely close to its star. A year lasts under a day ...

Groundbreaking flat lens enables telescopes to capture color and detect light from distant stars. Credit: LSST / CC BY 4.0 Engineers have created an innovative flat lens that enhances telescopes’ ...

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"Finding dark matter would unlock an entirely new chapter in our understanding of the universe." As the hunt for dark matter, the universe's most common yet most mysterious "stuff," continues ...