No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
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 the Universe, and ultimately life, came to be.
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time.
A fancy new telescope is heading to space: Here’s what SPHEREx will do
SPHEREx is set to launch at Friday from California. Here are five things to know about NASA's latest advanced space telescope.
NASA Launches Powerful Space Telescope
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from California carrying the telescope, named SPHEREx, along with a suite of satellites called PUNCH.
NASA's SPHEREx telescope begins cosmic origins mission
NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope, designed to map the entire sky and study the origins of the universe. The device was launched into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket from the base in California. The SPHEREx space telescope,
NASA Launches 'Spherex Observatory' Telescope Into Space To Map Galaxies
NASA's newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky. The 'Spherex Observatory' infrared instruments are expected to provide a sweeping, wide-angle view of hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow.
Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning
The Kuiper Belt is a band on the outer edge of the Solar System made up of space’s odds and ends: comets, dwarf planets, and ...
Spherex: Nasa's cutting-edge telescope searching for the origins of life
Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...
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Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)
"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...
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NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts
Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes ...
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SpaceX rocket launches NASA SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar probes (video)
There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because a SpaceX ...
Webb telescope spots curious objects that aren't stars, or planets
Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...
NASA launches 'incredible' new tools into space to study the universe, sun's corona
SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...
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How did Andromeda's dwarf galaxies form? Hubble Telescope finds more questions than answers
Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space ...
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Webb Telescope Unveils Elusive Brown Dwarfs in the Flame Nebula
The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...
Weather delays launch of NASA’s newest space telescope set to search for life’s key ingredients
Weather has delayed NASA’s launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the ...