Launch is presently scheduled for no earlier than Feb. 27 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — and SPHEREx won't be the only payload. As part of NASA's Launch Services Program, which connects space ...

NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer — is set to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

If astronomers could study space in more colors, they’d gain a better understanding of cosmic physics and planetary science. That’s the goal of NASA’s SPHEREx mission, imaging the sky in 102 ...

That's where SPHEREx comes in. The new telescope could help fill in the gap by getting a wider view of the galaxy – identifying objects of scientific interest that telescopes like Hubble and ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions.

By analyzing this background light, SPHEREx will help scientists understand how galaxies formed and evolved over time. This will be particularly useful for studying distant, early galaxies that ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission won't be the first space telescope to observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies when it launches no later than April 2025, but it will be the first to observe them ...

Everything in no time at all A mere billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, our universe expanded dramatically — a trillion-trillion fold.

SPHEREx launched at 11:10 p.m. EST, March 11 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission is managed by NASA's Jet ...