SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

Case in point, 62 percent of 27,000 travelers surveyed in a 2025 travel predictions report by Booking.com said they plan to travel for stargazing, making it a popular travel trend in 2026, too. In ...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, may be the largest habitat on the planet.

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA aimed big for its SPHEREx’s first 3D cosmic map. Only six ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA has released a stunning new map of the cosmos, one that the agency says could help scientists solve some of the universe’s ...

A space map captured by the space telescope SPHEREx in 102 infrared colors./Courtesy of Korea AeroSpace Administration The Korea AeroSpace Administration and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science ...

Just nine months since its launch, NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a jaw-dropping map of the cosmos unlike any we have seen before. Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch ...

The night sky in Death Valley National Park, California. There are opportunities coming up to catch meteor showers. There's a good chance Colorado stargazers can catch a meteor shower this month.

There are some people so endlessly inventive that it's almost impossible to imagine them getting writer's block. David Byrne is one of those people. In 1975, Byrne, along with bassist Tina Weymouth ...