The Fram2 mission, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, is funded by Chinese-born Chun Wang.
The first telescope has a narrow field of view and once installed on the ISS, it will observe a single bright star, the "science" star, as its line-of-sight transits through the Earth's atmosphere.
SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...
On Episode 154 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Space TV director Liam Kennedy about bringing content and video from the International Space Station down to Earth. If you've ...
Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...
American Astronaut Don Pettit shared several out-of-this-world photos this past week of the expansive views of space outside of his window at the International Space Station. Several of the photos ...
A 2018 view of the International Space Station. Credit ... the first place because it's reflecting sunlight. If you have a telescope or a really good camera, you'll be able to make out features ...
A European dark matter telescope called Euclid has released its first treasure trove of data, showing galaxies by the thousand.
Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that showcases 5000 galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
If you've ever wondered what the view from the International Space Station might look like in real-time, this is your episode. Or if you just want to know more about who's up there and what's ...