SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

Update by edhat staff March 12, 2025 On Tuesday, March 11 at 8:10 p.m., Falcon 9 launched NASA’s SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

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

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two NASA science probes on March 11, 2025 in a spectacular nighttime liftoff from ...

Prior to launch, the PUNCH spacecraft were attached to the gold-colored ESPA ring designed to deploy secondary payloads, below NASA’s SPHEREx observatory, to cost-effectively share a ride to space.

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 ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are expected to return home after spending nine months in orbit.

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 announced the successful launch of the SPHEREx astrophysics observatory to search the cosmos for the ingredients for ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.