Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. The potential risk of Asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 dropped to nearly zero following new ...

AS night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile, four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have made detailed observations of the mysterious exoplanet ...

Scientists mapped exoplanet WASP-121b’s atmosphere, revealing extreme winds and hidden metals. Iron and titanium appear ...

Recent observations have significantly lowered the impact risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 with Earth. Initially estimated with a 3% chance, new data from the European Southern Observatory shows the ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But ...

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question. Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a ...

A team of scientists at the University of Utah has designed a flat lens that matches the power of traditional curved lenses ...

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

"Our demonstration is a stepping stone towards creating very large aperture lightweight flat lenses with the capability of capturing full-color images for use in air-and-space-based telescopes ...