On March 27 — 15 days after its launch — SPHEREx saw its first light, proving its instruments performed as designed. This ...

These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months after it got off the ground ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx to use its ...

NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions have successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SPHEREx will map the entire celestial sky in 102 ...

The two missions, called SphereX and Punch, were launched at the same time so NASA could use its resources more efficiently. Stormtracker 16 Meteorologist Jeremy Lewan interviewed NASA scientist ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...