Six things to know about SPHEREx, NASA's newest space telescope
Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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Why NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory could be the ultimate exoplanet hunter
HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...
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How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy
Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...
Israel opens major solar observatory in Druze-majority town of Usfiya
Solaris promises to be a major platform for education and research, with a particular focus on academic research into the Sun ...
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NASA's launching a new sun mission this month: 'PUNCH is going to see a total solar eclipse'
Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...
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NASA to Preview Sky-Mapping Space Telescope Ahead of Launch at Conference January 31
NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. Friday, January 31, to discuss a new telescope that will search for life in our galaxy.
The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected and This Telescope Will Find Out Why
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos by detecting millions of exploding stars — Type Ia supernovae — over the next decade. These brilliant explosions ...
Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes
On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He ...
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To decode dark energy, the Rubin Observatory will find millions of exploding vampire stars
"The large volume of data from Rubin will give us a sample of all kinds of Type Ia supernovas at a range of distances and in ...