Launched Tuesday night from California by SpaceX, the Spherex observatory will survey the sky every six months from an orbit over Earth's poles.

NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution ...

Following a checkout period lasting one month, the observatory – which measures 8.5 feet tall, 10.5 feet across, and weighs 1,107 pounds – will capture a ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.

NASA has launched a $488m infra-red mission to map the distribution of galaxies and study cosmic inflation. The ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

NASA on Friday hopes to launch two separate missions on the same rocket. SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer — will ...

NASA launches SPHEREx and PUNCH on a single rocket to map the sky and study galaxy evolution, offering unprecedented insights into the universe. By Maurielle Lue Posted February 26, 2025 2:18pm EST ...

SPHEREx and PUNCH are scheduled to launch no ... is coming toward Earth or if it's headed elsewhere within our solar system. It won't be the first spacecraft to deal with polarized light ...

SPHEREx will help track this water down. It will scan young solar systems and search for ice, the form water takes in space. It will measure this ice content to generate a universal water cycle.