NASA's near-Earth-object-hunting mission NEOWISE is nearing its conclusion. But its work will carry on with NASA's next-generation infrared mission: NEO Surveyor. After more than 14 successful years ...

The groundbreaking infrared sensors use layers of repeating molecular structures to interact with individual photons, or units of light. The sensors resolve more wavelengths of infrared at a higher ...

Although it completed its mission in July, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) still has interesting archival data covering the solar system thanks to the team at ...

Over the past decade, thousands of volunteers with no professional astronomy training have been flipping through old NASA infrared images on their laptops, hunting for faint objects that drift slowly ...

Less than a year into its mission, NASA’s SPHEREx has already completed its first full survey of the sky, producing a near-infrared map that captures the entire cosmos in a staggering 102 colors.

Los Angeles is revisiting the federal government’s latest release of unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) records, as two glaring mysteries, decades apart, remain unexplained: an unusual object ...