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

A new NASA observatory launched into space Tuesday on a mission that could help scientists unravel what happened in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang.

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

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

After initially scrubbing the mission Monday, SpaceX successfully carried out a launch from the Southern California coast. The SpaceX rocket carrying a space telescope and suitcase-sized ...

The telescope will map the sky in 102 infrared colors, and the data it collects will shed light on the origins of the ...

NASA and SpaceX late Monday said they were standing down the launch of the SPHEREx and PUNCH spacecraft missions due to unfavorable weather at the launch site and an issue with one of the spacecrafts.

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

A seperate NASA mission to study the sun also launched with SPHEREx on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks ahead, SPHEREx will begin its two-year mission to scour hundreds of millions of ...

“We are the first mission to look at the whole sky in so many colors,” SPHEREx principal investigator Jamie Bock said in a statement. “Whenever astronomers look at the sky in a new ...

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 ...