NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope to launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 for deep space exploration
Alongside SPHEREx, NASA will also launch PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), a mission with four ...
NASA Gears Up for Weekend Launch Carrying Missions to Study the Milky Way and Sun
A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.
New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic ‘inflation’
The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an exotic, unfathomably rapid expansion, but scientists ...
A fancy new telescope is heading to space: Here’s what SPHEREx will do
The findings it beams back to Earth during its two-year mission could help astronomers solve age-old mysteries, including how ...
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5 Space Missions to Watch in March: Mars Gravity Assists and Astronaut Homecomings
Two Mars gravity assists are expected, and NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally set to come home from an extended stay on the International Space Station. Here are five space ...
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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope
The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...
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NASA will soon launch PUNCH to study how the Sun influences the space around us
PUNCH will watch the how the Sun's corona births solar wind disturbances that spread across the full scope of the inner solar ...
Can I see 7 planets tonight with the naked eye? Not exactly
Seven planets will be briefly “visible” in the evening sky Friday night, but the best chance to see as many as four planets ...
Seven planet alignment
On Feb. 28, seven planets will all grace the early evening sky.