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A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

NASA is preparing to launch its latest space observatory, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch ...

Excitement is building for next month’s launch of NASA’s SPHEREx mission, which will survey the sky in optical and near-infrared light from low-Earth orbit. NASA has just released a video ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, to discuss a new telescope that will improve our understanding of how the universe ...

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Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) observatory. The PUNCH constellation of satellites is targeted to launch in late February 2025 into a polar orbit along the day-night line ...

BAE Systems says it has successfully delivered the “SPHEREx” space observatory to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, ahead of a planned launch in late February. Short for “Spectro-Photometer ...

In an extra twist, Mercury is expected to join the lineup later, briefly creating a rare seven-planet alignment. Observing all seven together will be tricky, as Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune will ...

NASA’s TESS identifies BD+05 4868 Ab, a rapidly disintegrating exoplane The planet loses mass equivalent to Earth's moon every million years Researchers to study it further using the James Webb Space ...