Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect NASA's March 4 blog post announcing a delay in the SPHEREx/PUNCH launch to no earlier than (NET) Friday, March 7 at 10:09 p.m. EST (7:09 p.m. PST).

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT), members of mission control appeared ...

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 probes launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 11, 2025 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (Image credit: NASA/Jim Ross) ...

Like SPHEREx and the Webb telescope, PUNCH will be able to work in tandem with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which launched in 2018 and recently made its closest pass to the sun, to capture the ...

Riding with SPHEREx aboard the Falcon 9 were four small satellites that make up the agency's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which will study how the Sun's outer ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two new missions, called SphereX and Punch, into orbit.

The space agency's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, which are sharing a ride aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, are scheduled to lift off no earlier than 10:09 p.m. EST (7:09 p.m. PST) tonight from ...

Moment of Science: NASA SPHEREx/PUNCH Missions “The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that there is no limit to ...

NASA launches astrophysics observatory SPHEREx and PUNCH mission aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to explore universe's origins. March 12, 2025 By StringerAI™ Comment ...

Launch Window: 2025-03-06 19:09:00 to 2025-03-06 19:09:00 Mission: SPHEREx & PUNCH – SPHEREx is a planned two-year astrophysics mission to survey the sky in the near-infrared light, which ...

The cone-shaped SPHEREx — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view.