UPDATE Wednesday, March 12, 2025: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying SPHEREx successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:10 P.M. EDT on March 11. Following deployment ...

Once in orbit, the instrument known as SPHEREx will begin its complex hunt across hundreds of thousands of galaxies for signs of water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons while ...

A Falcon 9 lifted off from California with the SPHEREx near-infrared observatory, with the PUNCH heliophysics mission flying as a rideshare. During its mission, SPHEREx will complete surveys of ...

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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.

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

By Kenneth Chang The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions.

The spacecraft, SPHEREx and PUNCH, had been expected to launch on a SpaceX rocket on Saturday. By Katrina Miller Two NASA missions will have to wait longer for a launch aboard a single rocket.