NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will launch on Friday, February 28, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, with SPHEREx creating a panoramic map of the universe and PUNCH monitoring space weather and

NASA and SpaceX are gearing up for an exciting double launch, sending the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions into space. SPHEREx will peer into the universe’s origins, shedding light on the first moments after the Big Bang and searching for life’s fundamental building blocks.

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9, exploring the Big Bang and solar wind. This dual mission will unlock cosmic history and space weather mysteries.

NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that initiated the universe and to search the Milky Way for reservoirs of water,

NASA has been working on SPHEREx for nearly a decade, having selected the telescope's proposal for development in July 2015, approved a prototype design in January 2021, and begun assembly in March 2022.

An infrared space telescope launches this week to map the sky not once but four times, and with unrivaled clarity. NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) will tackle the thorniest mysteries of physics,