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 ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions three times — they were originally slated to take to the ...

If all goes to plan, the spacecraft for both missions will separate from Falcon 9 within an hour after launch — SPHEREx will deploy first, about 42 minutes after liftoff, followed by PUNCH about ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

SpaceX announced after the launch at 11:10 p.m. EDT ... After launching Tuesday, SPHEREx and PUNCH separated from the Falcon 9 rocket. As the second stage continued to carry both missions to ...

A brand new NASA space observatory, SPHEREx, has taken its first test images a few weeks after its launch on March 11, and ...

SpaceX and NASA successfully launched two major missions to orbit in a liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday night.

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - “Two missions, one launch, one shared goal ... Later this year, SPHEREx and PUNCH will be activated for two-year missions.

After another delay due to weather, SpaceX is seeking to possibly launch the Starlink 12-21 mission Wednesday night. This could bring a double-header.

Four suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, passed all final evaluations and are now loaded into the faring awaiting launch into low Earth orbit no earlier ...