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.

Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA's SPHEREx space observatory will provide astronomers with a big-picture view of the ...

"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.

SPHEREx mission seeks answers to cosmic mysteries What happened a fraction of a second after the big bang? That's one of the questions scientists hope to unravel through the SPHEREx mission.

SPHEREx's filters are designed to block all but one wavelength from reaching the telescope. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Some, however, may think this telescope looks a bit odd.

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.

SPHEREx is a space telescope that will map our cosmos, while PUNCH comprises four small satellites that will study our sun’s outer layer and solar winds. Both were carried to orbit by SpaceX’s ...

The SPHEREx team is slated to spend the next 29 months building the mission components before entering the next mission phase, when those components will be brought together, tested and launched.

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 a $242 million pursuit that will launch in 2023. For two years, the shuttlecock-shaped observatory will circle Earth in an orbit twice as a high as the International Space Station.

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.