This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has officially begun its journey of cosmic exploration after successfully ejecting its dust ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies and "their combined cosmic glow" to give ...

NASA's advanced space observatory known as SPHEREx is on its cosmic journey to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries. The space telescope, which NASA has spent years developing ...

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 ...

Four full-sky surveys are planned over two years, as the telescope circles the globe from pole to pole 400 miles (650 kilometers) up. Spherex won’t see galaxies in exquisite detail like NASA’s ...

The duo launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT). There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because ...

NASA's SPHEREx, a washing machine-sized telescope, has removed its dust cover in space, preparing to scan the entire sky in ...