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

A Falcon 9 will liftoff from California with the SPHEREx near-infrared observatory, with the PUNCH heliophysics mission flying as a rideshare. During its mission, SPHEREx will complete surveys of ...

"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together and worked diligently to get us over that." After more than a week of ...

SPHEREx will create a 3D all-sky map of 450 million galaxies, while PUNCH will use small satellites to study the sun’s impact on space weather and Earth’s communications. IE 11 is not supported.

The spacecraft, SPHEREx and PUNCH, had been expected to launch on a SpaceX rocket on Saturday. By Katrina Miller Two NASA missions will have to wait longer for a launch aboard a single rocket.

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the galaxy and take stock. Every living organism on Earth needs water to ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions four times — they were originally slated to take to the ...

The $488 million SPHEREx − short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer − is a megaphone-shaped observatory roughly the size of a ...

Once in orbit, the instrument known as SPHEREx will begin its complex hunt across hundreds of thousands of galaxies for signs of water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons while ...

and imposed limitations on lab space, forcing project staff to build engineering models of the spacecraft in their home workshops during the pandemic. As delays mounted, SPHEREx’s launch slipped ...

The future of space exploration looks to grow even brighter as the launch of NASA’s highly anticipated SPHEREx mission lies right on the horizon. The mission, set to launch the evening of March 7, ...

NASA IS EXPECTED TO LAUNCH TWO MISSIONS TOMORROW WITH THE SAME GOAL. SPHEREX WILL HELP US BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE, AND PUNCH WILL TELL US MORE ABOUT STARS THAT ARE CLOSER TO ...