NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll. NASA’s newest spacecraft is scheduled to roll to the pad on Friday, Nov. 20 ...

The NEOWISE mission continued to use the spacecraft from NASA’s WISE mission, which ran from late 2009 to 2011 and conducted an all-sky infrared survey to detect not only near-Earth objects but ...

Its original seven-month mission showed that WISE was far more sensitive than scientists had expected. NASA then extended the mission under the name NEOWISE to last until 2011, so the telescope ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Gemini Observatory, European ...

By observing the entire sky, WISE can search for faint objects, like distant galaxies, or survey groups of cosmic objects. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA ...

This final image captured by NASA’s NEOWISE shows part of the Fornax constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. It was the mission’s 26,886,704th exposure. NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC/UCLA ...

The NEOWISE mission continued to use the spacecraft from NASA’s WISE mission, which ran from late 2009 to 2011 and conducted an all-sky infrared survey to detect not only near-Earth objects but ...

Following the hibernation period, NASA decided to reactivate the WISE spacecraft under the NEOWISE mission, with a more specialized focus on detecting near-Earth objects, which was still feasible ...

NASA’s universe-mapping and asteroid-hunting satellite — assembled in Logan nearly 15 years ago — has officially been powered down, leaving a piece of Cache Valley among the stars.