Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Life is tenacious and the universe is vast, so some are confident that extraterrestrial life is hiding out there. These ...

BYUH students share their understanding of exoplanets and what humanity’s enduring hunt for life outside the solar system ...

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used data from the Kepler space observatory to estimate that at least 17 billion Earth-sized exoplanets exist in the Milky Way galaxy.

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit Sunday on a lofty mission to map more than 450 million galaxies. The SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of ...

The field of view covers the west limb of the sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the ...