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 ...

If all goes to plan, two NASA missions called "SPHEREx" and "PUNCH" will be sharing a ride to space very soon. The agency plans to launch both missions at the same time no earlier than Sunday ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

the spacecraft for both missions will separate from Falcon 9 within an hour after launch — SPHEREx will deploy first, about 42 minutes after liftoff, followed by PUNCH about 10 minutes later.