A sea ofstars takes center stage in the very first photo released from NASA?s newestspace telescope built to map the entire sky. About 3,000stars are visible in the new sky image from the Wide-field ...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A NASA spacecraft blasted into space early today on a mission to map the whole sky in search of hidden asteroids, comets and other celestial objects. The Wide-Field ...

WASHINGTON — Despite budget cuts and programmatic changes that delayed its launch more than a year, NASA’s new asteroid-hunting space telescope rolled out to the pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, ...

LOS ANGELES - NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard ...

A custom-built test chamber for a new NASA space telescope has arrived at Caltech in Pasadena to help ready the spacecraft for launch in 2025. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the Internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard ...

Google Sky Map lets you use your Droid Incredible to locate and identify constellations, stars and planets, and it displays these items on your phone's screen. It can use your phone's GPS to ...

Sappho's "Midnight Poem" describes the night sky over Greece, which has allowed astronomers to accurately calculate when it was written. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

This morning, the European Space Agency unveiled a new, highly detailed sky map of the Milky Way Galaxy that showcases the brightness and positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars. It’s the most ...

A prolific sky-mapping telescope that has spent more than a year scanning the heavens for asteroids, comets and other cosmic objects received its last command today (Feb. 17). NASA shut down its WISE ...