Space observatories tend to work quietly, collecting data long before images reach the public. In March 2025, NASA launched the SPHEREx space telescop.

For the first time, an international team of astronomers has mapped the vertical structure of Uranus’ upper atmosphere, depicting how temperature and charged particles change with altitude across the ...

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the ...

NASA is returning to Earth in a big way. The space agency announced two new satellite missions that might change ‘how we see’ ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first-ever three-dimensional images of Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing a chaotic and shimmering world of infrared auroras.

NASA's new SPHEREx observatory has released its first all-sky cosmic map. This map uses 102 infrared wavelengths to reveal the universe in unprecedented detail. Scientists can now study cosmic ...

The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the field lately, with the James Webb Space Telescope taking a look at as many as it can manage. But time on the world's most powerful space ...

A high-resolution multispectral image of Washington, DC from Vantor. Visible are the Washington Monument (left), Tidal Basin (the body ...

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

A Northumbria University PhD student has led an international team of astronomers in creating the first-ever three-dimensional map of Uranus's upper ...

This week, we examine strength from different perspectives. The energetic strength of a solar flare and its effect on Earth. The gravitational strength of dark matter in our universe and its ...

A Northumbria University PhD student has led an international team of astronomers in creating the first-ever three-dimensional map of Uranus's upper ...