Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have attached the telescope to the flight base frame of NEO Surveyor, the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument shows the Centaurus A galaxy's weird glowing shapes at its core.

NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor — the agency's first purpose-built infrared space telescope designed specifically to detect ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren’t any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about how ...

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared wavelengths of light are ...

Using two infrared space telescopes and a 23-year gap, scientists may have spotted a mysterious, slow-moving object beyond Neptune. Reading time 3 minutes A team of astronomers says it has identified ...

Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to uncover the faintest traces of exoplanets, galactic structures, variable stars, and fleeting cosmic events beyond our solar system. The Prime-focus Infrared ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at black holes secretly snacking on stars within dusty galaxies. JWST’s ability to pick up detailed infrared signals lets it peer past the dust ...

NASA recently selected the PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) project as one of two candidates for its new Probe Explorers mission class. PRIMA is designed as a space telescope that ...