The new findings come from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which sits on a telescope at the Kitt Peak ...

To do so, this telescope, called SPHEREx, will map the entire sky to see the universe in 102 colors of light. Astronomers hope to detect the icy cradles of stars and the faint glow of all the ...

These colors combine to form a final full-color ... “It’s about opening up a new window on the universe.” Although the data that the spacecraft gathers will be of broad relevance across ...

DESI's first dataset maps 18.7 million celestial objects, aiding dark energy, galaxy, and universe expansion studies.

The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has officially begun its journey of cosmic exploration after successfully ejecting its dust ...

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ultimate fate of the universe. Astrophysicists know that the universe is ...

After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map ...

In reality, those tiny spots of light represent the actual average color of the cosmos. Most of the stars in the universe formed about 5 billion years ago. In the past, these stars would have ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is studying dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe.