The agency had planned to launch both missions at the same time on Saturday (March 8) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but SpaceX delayed the launch to complete vehicle checkouts. The next attempt, ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on Saturday night.

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

To keep itself cold, SPHEREx relies on an entirely passive cooling system, meaning no electricity or coolants are used while it's operating. NASA believes SPHEREx could complement the fleet of ...

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 ...

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