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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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

A mission that could provide a cosmic history lesson launched Tuesday evening from the Southern California coast. Originally set to launch Monday, the SpaceX rocket carrying a space telescope and ...

The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an unfathomably rapid expansion — even faster than in traditional Big Bang theories — but scientists don’t know why it happened.

Infrared energy can reveal objects in the universe that cannot be seen in visible light using optical telescopes, according ...