Ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange was not just a bucket list wish of Thelen’s, but was an amazing way to share this project with the world. Thelen is a mechanical engineer and loves his ...

These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

Update by the edhat staff May 13, 2025 On Monday, May 12 at 6:15 p.m., Falcon 9 launched 26 Starlink satellites to low-Earth ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...

Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

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

On March 27 — 15 days after its launch — SPHEREx saw its first light, proving its instruments performed as designed. This ...

The space-based observatory, launched at the end of March, released its first set of images, in which a cloud of dust ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

The SPHEREx observatory won't be the first to map the entire sky, but it will be the first to do so in so many colors. It observes 102 wavelengths , or colors, of infrared light, which are ...

NASA announced Thursday that its SPHEREx space observatory has officially begun science operations, marking a major step toward uncovering new insights into the origins of the universe, the evolution ...