Project News

NASA, SpaceX Update Launch Date for SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions

SPHEREx • March 6th, 2025

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than Saturday, March 8, for the launch of the agency’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions. The additional time will allow SpaceX to complete...

NASA, SpaceX Update Launch Date for SPHEREx, PUNCH Missions

SPHEREx • March 4th, 2025

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than Friday, March 7, for the launch of the agency’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions due to the availability of a launch opportunity on...

NASA, SpaceX Update Launch Date for SPHEREx, PUNCH Missions

SPHEREx • March 3rd, 2025

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than Thursday, March 6, for the launch of the agency’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions. The additional time will allow teams to complete...

NASA, SpaceX Update Launch Date for SPHEREx, PUNCH Mission

SPHEREx • February 28th, 2025

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than Tuesday, March 4, for the launch of the agency’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions. The teams need additional time to evaluate launch...

What Hundreds of Millions of Galaxies Can Teach Us About the Big Bang

SPHEREx • February 21st, 2025

Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before. Called SPHEREx (for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the...

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Missions Studying Cosmic Origins, Sun

SPHEREx • February 18th, 2025

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), the...

NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Will Seek Life’s Ingredients

SPHEREx • February 13th, 2025

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the galaxy and take stock.

SPHEREx Nears Launch (LIVE Q+A)

SPHEREx • February 13th, 2025

We are less than 15 days away from launching SPHEREx, a mission that will observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies in infrared light, a range of wavelengths not...

SPHEREx L-30 News Briefing

SPHEREx • January 31st, 2025

NASA previews SPHEREx, space telescope mission to explore universe’s origins.

SPHEREx Begins Integration with PUNCH

SPHEREx • January 29th, 2025

The SPHEREx Observatory has completed standalone operations in the West High Bay at Astrotech Space Operations Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The...