"SPHEREx is a testament to doing big science with a small telescope." Earth will soon gain a new robotic companion. NASA's ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The findings it beams back to Earth during its two-year ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

If it does strike Earth, it will do so on Dec. 22 ... “It’s very quickly fading and now we need the largest telescopes available to us to potentially have further measurements of it in ...

NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after ...

The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the naked eye, called infrared. Infrared light is largely heat energy, allowing ...

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

You know it’s serious when they bring in the big guns, or at least the big lenses. The European Space Agency confirms that the James Webb Space Telescope ... of impacting Earth in 2032.

Scientists aim to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the universe using NASA's newest space telescope, ...