NASA is preparing to launch the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions to uncover the universe's profound secrets. SPHEREx will utilize infrared detectors to collect cosmic light from hundreds of millions of ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about how ...

SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope and the PUNCH solar mission. The launch took place on March 11, 2025, marking another significant ...

Being launched along with SPHEREx is a constellation of satellites for NASA's PUNCH - short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere - mission to better understand the solar wind ...

The two spacecraft onboard, NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere ...

Accompanying SPHEREx on the Falcon 9 were four small satellites comprising NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which will study how the Sun's outer atmosphere ...

Days after SpaceX blew up one of its big Starship spacecrafts, the company helped launch two rather important science missions namely SPHEREx and PUNCH for NASA. Our focus today is on SPHEREx but ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was selected to launch SPHEREx. In addition, the solar wind research mission ' PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) ' scheduled for launch in June 2024 ...