SPHEREx, NASA’s new space telescope, just opened its eyes to the universe and delivered its very first images from space.

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

Jennifer Rocca, a project systems engineer for NASA SPHEREx, said their project goal is to map the universe in more than 100 colors. “We’re actually two independent science mi ...

One of those missions centers on a new space telescope called SPHEREx—no relation to SpaceX ... Tagging along on the same flight was NASA’s PUNCH, short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a groundbreaking mission to map the entire sky in infrared light. The ...

SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope and the PUNCH solar mission. The launch took place on March 11, 2025, marking another significant ...

Perched atop that rocket were two new NASA missions — one to study the origins of the solar wind, named PUNCH, and another to help unlock the very secrets of the cosmos, called SPHEREx.

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 ...

SPHEREx, along with the PUNCH solar probes, successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 11, and within hours, ground controllers at NASA’s ...

Philosophically, these questions are existential. SPHEREx will try to punch above its weight. Built by BAE Systems, SPHEREx is about the size of a subcompact car, and it lacks the power and ...

Days after SpaceX blew up one of its big Starship spacecrafts, the company helped launch two rather important science missions namely SPHEREx and PUNCH for NASA. Our focus today is on SPHEREx but ...

and NASA launches SPHEREx and PUNCH to study solar system and Universe’s beginnings. Rocket Lab Electron “It's Business Time” on the pad at LC-1. Rocket Lab USA, a Long Beach, Ca-based developer of ...