NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions five times — they were originally slated to take to the ...

After more than a week of delays, two new NASA missions have been cleared for liftoff tonight (March 10). The space agency's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, which are sharing a ride aboard the SpaceX ...

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

The observatory will begin its two-year mission in about one month after engineers and scientists make sure the spacecraft is working properly. 'Sending both SPHEREx and PUNCH up on a single ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH are on their way to space. Both missions ...

The goal of the two NASA missions will be to create a three dimensional map of more than 400 million galaxies "across cosmic time," according to James Fanson, the SPHEREx project manager at the ...

Launching on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, SPHEREx will map 450 million galaxies and could help unravel what happened after the Big Bang, while PUNCH will make ...

Space launches have already made headlines this year. Here's a look at upcoming launches you can watch from the comfort of home.

SPHEREx, which the U.S. space agency sent ... shared a ride with the four small satellites that make up NASA’s PUNCH mission, which will study how the sun's outer atmosphere becomes solar ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions three times — they were originally slated to take to the ...