A new NASA mission will scan the entire sky in infrared light in search of nearby cool stars, planetary construction zones and the brightest galaxies in the universe. Called the Wide-field Infrared ...

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This mosaic shows the sky as imaged by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, aka WISE. Using images from a NASA telescope, three amateur scientists discovered a star-like object sprinting ...

Comet Neowise, over a silhouetted Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, UK on the 12th July 2020. Discovered in March 2020 by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission, ...

Aug. 9 (UPI) --After more than a decade of tracking asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth, NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is now officially shut down.