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 ...
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Mapping the Northern Sky

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 ...
A new mapping of our galaxy has just revealed cosmic landscapes never seen before—a Milky Way with supernatural colors that ...
Behold the limitless, crowded cosmos. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Survey has put out its latest data release, increasing the size of the largest 2D sky map. The ...
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 ...
No need for hyperdrive: Scientists have released an “expansion pack” for a virtual tour of the universe that you can enjoy from the comfort of your own computer. The latest version of the publicly ...
UVEX is NASA’s next ‘Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer’ mission designed to survey the entire sky in the UV regime. The next NASA space telescope to survey the ultraviolet sky has the fingerprint of ...
If you look up at the night sky in a dark enough place, with enough patience you’re almost sure to see a satellite cross the sky. It’s pretty cool to think you’re watching light reflect off a hunk of ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Many of the world’s scientists and ecologists rely on an aerial assistant to help them learn more about environmental impacts and climate change. The Global Airborne ...
A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...