Long before satellite navigation and GPS, explorers were already setting their sights toward space. Since we first saw the night sky, humanity has been fascinated by the stars. Over thousands of years ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...

NASA's SPHEREx Observatory has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, as seen here in this image released on Dec. 18, 2025. This image features a selection of colors emitted primarily by stars ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into one dazzling mosaic. Half a year after first opening its eyes to the cosmos ...

An ambitious NASA mission to map the sky in 3D using a space-based observatory now has a target launch date of late February 2025. Using the sky map, SPHEREx has three scientific goals to achieve.

At Vandenberg Space Force Base, preparations are underway for a mission to send a NASA telescope into space. NASA officials say the two-year-long SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has just completed an extraordinary feat: it has mapped the entire sky over Earth in stunning detail. This remarkable achievement marks a significant milestone in the mission ...

TL;DR: NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has completed calibration and begun a two-year mission to map the entire night sky in 3D, capturing over 3,600 images daily. This comprehensive survey aims to ...

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia is ...

LOS ANGELES - NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard ...

Astronomers using data from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies outside ...