A seperate NASA mission to study the sun also launched with SPHEREx on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks ahead, SPHEREx will begin its two-year mission to scour hundreds of millions of ...

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 ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14.5 times each day as it images a single, circular strip of the sky. Given ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx ...

NASA will soon be launching a new space telescope with an epic mission: to observe millions of stars in over one hundred wavelengths. The SPHEREx mission will map the entire sky in the infrared ...

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 ...