"When SPHEREx begins routine science operations in late April, it will take approximately 600 exposures every day." NASA's $488 million SPHEREx space telescope launched into space on March 11.

NASA's latest space telescope, SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer — is set to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

The cone-shaped SPHEREx — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view. Four full-sky ...

SPHEREx won’t see galaxies in exquisite detail like NASA’s larger and more elaborate Hubble and Webb space telescopes, with their narrow fields of view.

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the ...

Being launched along with SPHEREx is a constellation of satellites for NASA's PUNCH mission to observe the sun's corona, the outermost layer of its atmosphere.

Launch is presently scheduled for no earlier than Feb. 27 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — and SPHEREx won't be the only payload. As part of NASA's Launch Services Program, which connects space ...

NASA is ramping up plans for a new sky survey tool that could help unravel some of the biggest mysteries about the origin of the universe. Exploring Cosmic Origins with NASA’s SPHEREx The ...

NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has taken to the skies again following a month-long break in communications with Earth. The drone-like flying machine flew for 393 meters and stayed in the air ...

With SPHEREx, scientists will map the position of billions of galaxies across the universe relative to one another, looking for statistical patterns caused by inflation, NASA reported.