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SPHEREx will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies, as well as search the Milky Way for water and organic molecules ...

Total Lunar Eclipse 2025 will turn the Moon blood red on March 13-14, offering a spectacular celestial display visible across ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

NASA's SphereX space telescope was successfully launched into space from California on March 11. SphereX lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and will explore the origins of the universe.