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

NASA's new SPHEREx mission to study how water and other molecules form in space is being led, in a large part, by scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. By Kathryn S. Kuhar ...

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 ...

SPHEREx, which the U.S. space agency sent on a mission to unravel some of the universe's biggest mysteries, first released a debut batch of uncalibrated images in April unsuited for scientific study.

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments. Closer to home in our own Milky ...

A new NASA observatory launched into space Tuesday on a mission that could help scientists unravel what happened in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang. The SPHEREx mission (short ...

A mission that could provide a cosmic history lesson launched Tuesday evening from the Southern California coast. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Originally set to launch ...

Tagging along were four suitcase-size satellites to study the sun. The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...