One of NASA’s prize workhorses, the spacecraft Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, was decommissioned Friday after 10 years of scanning the universe in ultraviolet light. “It had a long run,” said ...

NASA has turned off a decade-old space telescope, a year after loaning the orbiting instrument to a university that operated it with private funding. The space agency decommissioned its Galaxy ...

NASA is sending a reliable servant into a retirement that will end with a fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in about 65 years. That's the fate that awaits the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, the ...

A NASA space telescope that has dazzled astronomers with spectacular images of distant galaxies for the past decade, and set an asset management precedent back on Earth, was finally turned off on June ...

Kudos to NASA and a consortium of educational institutions for coming up with a novel way to keep an aging astronomy satellite operating for at least another five months. The 9-year-old Galaxy ...

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GALEX, NASA's galaxy-finding space telescope, retired this week. We look back at some of its most beautiful and momentous discoveries. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

On June 28, NASA flipped the switch for GALEX, shutting down the highly successful astronomical observatory. This was not unexpected; the mission had a fantastic 10-year run, and given NASA’s limited ...

Using ultraviolet vision, scientists have found a smattering of massive baby galaxies in an unexpected place: our own celestial back yard. "Back yard" is a relative term: The newborn galaxies range in ...

At 2 p.m. Pacific time on April 24, 2004, NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), an ultraviolet (UV) space telescope, was studying galaxies in the constellation Virgo when a faint star in its field ...

GALEX, NASA's galaxy-finding space telescope, retired this week. We look back at some of its most beautiful and momentous discoveries. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...