As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations at 10:09 p.m. EST (0209 ...
NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...
NASA believes SPHEREx could complement the fleet of space telescopes the agency has already deployed, including the famous Hubble and James Webb telescopes. Those telescopes have for years ...
Four full-sky surveys are planned over two years, as the telescope circles the globe from pole to pole 400 miles (650 kilometers) up. SPHEREx won’t see galaxies in exquisite detail like NASA’s ...
A modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions will soon launch into an orbit around Earth. Here's why scientists are ...
NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos.