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 ...

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).

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

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) ...

Being launched along with SPHEREx is a constellation of satellites for NASA's PUNCH - short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere - mission to better understand the solar wind, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHPEREx and PUNCH will launch together from Vandenberg, Calif. SPHEREx is a space telescope that will map the entire sky in 102 colors to study the origins of the universe, galaxies within it, and ...

NASA’s latest infrared space telescope, SPHEREx —short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer—will assemble the world’s most ...

SPHEREx will help us better understand the origins of our universe, while PUNCH will teach us more about the star that’s closest to home.