NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

NASA's SPHEREx orbital observatory has begun imaging hundreds of millions of galaxies in 3D, tracking their changing ...

The space-based observatory, launched at the end of March, released its first set of images, in which a cloud of dust ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) telescope maps the entire sky in 102 infrared wavelengths — or colors — to study ...

SPHEREx, which the U.S. space agency sent on a mission to unravel some of the universe's biggest mysteries, first released a debut batch of uncalibrated images in April unsuited for scientific study.

The SPHEREx observatory won't be the first to map the entire sky, but it will be the first to do so in so many colors. It observes 102 wavelengths , or colors, of infrared light, which are ...

Scientists hope SPHEREx will provide data lending new insights into the origins of the universe and whether the ingredients for life exist anywhere else in our Milky Way galaxy. The telescope ...