NASA’s SPHEREx astrophysics observatory mission launched aboard a rocket that also carried satellites for the agency's PUNCH mission.

Called SPHEREx, the instrument will map 450 million galaxies and search for water molecules that may be clinging to space dust ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

Update by edhat staff March 12, 2025 On Tuesday, March 11 at 8:10 p.m., Falcon 9 launched NASA’s SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space ...

SpaceX has launched National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) latest astrophysics observatory called SPHEREx on Tuesday (Mar 11) from California observatory via Falcon rocket. Science and ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two NASA science probes on March 11, 2025 in a spectacular nighttime liftoff from ...

Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute headquartered in San Antonio, launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 11.  NASA’s ...

Prior to launch, the PUNCH spacecraft were attached to the gold-colored ESPA ring designed to deploy secondary payloads, below NASA’s SPHEREx observatory, to cost-effectively share a ride to space.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 members are aboard the Dragon capsule spacecraft in Florida for Wednesday night's mission to reach the ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission has officially come online, promising to transform our understanding of space weather. By capturing ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying PUNCH successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:10 P.M. EDT on March ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.