SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens of thousands of stars and galaxies. The SPHEREx, which is ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT), members of mission control appeared ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions five times — they were originally slated to take to the ...

Two seperate missions got off the ground Tuesday night from California, including NASA's SPHEREx telescope and the four satellites of the sun-studying PUNCH mission.

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.

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.

NASA’s SPHEREx mission captured its first test images after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in March 2025.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems The SPHEREx Observatory sits in a clean room after environmental testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colo., in late 2024. The mission is ready to launch in early 2025.

NASA is beginning a new age of space exploration with the launch of two separate missions at the same time. We spoke with Jennifer Rocca, NASA SPHEREx project systems engineer, about what ...