NASA launching SPHEREx and PUNCH missions this weekend 04:12. A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT), members of mission control appeared ...

Space Launch Delta 30 is hosting a mission overview for NASA's SPHEREx space telescope Thursday at the Crucible Innovation Lab at Vandenberg Space Force Base.

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.

NASA / JPL-Caltech. The $488 million SPHEREx mission, which has been in development for about a decade, is designed to map the celestial sky in 102 infrared colors — more than any other mission ...

NASA has just released a video (below) offering a behind-the-scenes look at the mission, with the team members revealing some of the rigorous testing processes that have been necessary to get the ...

What to expect from the launch. The SPHEREx mission will launch using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday night.

The $488 million SPHEREx observatory will survey the whole sky four times over its two-year mission. Its instruments will observe the cosmos in 102 different colors, or wavelengths, which NASA has ...

The cone-shaped Spherex — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view.

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT), members of mission control appeared ...