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 ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when ... is to focus on smaller Earth-sized worlds, Balmer said. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will use a ...

Although starshades – a technology first proposed in the 1960s, four decades before the first exoplanet was discovered – have never flown in space and have not been approved for flight, they could ...

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have found ... Data from the massive telescope also suggests the exoplanet, the name for a planet outside the solar system, may also have a surface covered ...

such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could there be life on planets outside our solar system? For astrophysicists, it’s a big ...

Astronomers detected the two new exoplanets, named TOI-1453 b and TOI-1453 c, using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet ...

On a personal level, I’m delighted The Exoplanets will be starting its life in my home city. From Norwich to NASA and who knows where else." Rowan Rutter, chief executive of London Sinfonia ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space ... Kepler uncovered thousands of exoplanets. The UCLA team turned to 1,600 of these light curves to extract information about ...