That is no mere coincidence. Amusement park rides present similar engineering problems as big telescopes: extraordinarily precise motors that move smoothly through their motions, rigorous data ...

"SPHEREx is a testament to doing big science with a small telescope." Earth will soon gain a new robotic companion. NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the ...

I've been testing the Dwarf 3 for the past two months and, not only has it changed my perspective on astrophotography without a bulky telescope and ... take and choose how big the grid should ...

A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a ... literally at the beginning of time and space, the “big bang” — the universe went through a brief period of exponentially ...

Related: NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't "SPHEREx is a testament to doing big science with a small telescope," Beth Fabinsky, the deputy ...

The telescope is peering at stars and galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. "We're going to see the very first stars and galaxies ...

One goal of the mission is to study "cosmic inflation," the rapid expansion of the universe right after the Big Bang, about 13.8 billion years ago. Scientists hope SPHEREx will provide clues about ...

a heavier element than scientists would expect to find just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser illustration Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth ...

NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that ... agency's SPHEREx space telescope is tentatively ...

March is also a great month to marvel at Sirius and the Big Dipper. We asked award-winning astrophotographer, Josh Dury, for tips on selecting the best telescopes, and he told Live Science "The ...