Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect NASA's March 4 blog post announcing a delay in the SPHEREx/PUNCH launch to no earlier than (NET) Friday, March 7 at 10:09 p.m. EST (7:09 p.m. PST).

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 ...

Beyond PUNCH and SPHEREx, NASA continues to develop the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), a future space telescope designed to search for signs of life on exoplanets that Dr. Domagal Goldman is ...

Launching on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, SPHEREx will map 450 million galaxies and could help unravel what happened after the Big Bang, while PUNCH will make ...

SPHEREx will help us understand the origins of our universe, while PUNCH will teach us more about the star that's closest to home. NASA expert Dr. Phil Korngut from the SPHEREx mission joins FOX6 ...

SPHEREx will help us better understand the origins of our universe, while PUNCH will teach us more about the star that’s closest to home.

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH probes launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 11, 2025 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (Image credit: NASA/Jim Ross) ...

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NASA is launching two satellites, SPHEREx and PUNCH, on Friday, February 28, to create a panoramic map of the universe and monitor space weather. SPHEREx will help track the origin of life by ...

The joint launch of SPHEREx and the four PUNCH suitcase-sized satellites is planned for Feb. 28 at 10:09 p.m. EST.

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can't exactly do.