NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

NASA's SPHEREx orbital observatory has begun imaging hundreds of millions of galaxies in 3D, tracking their changing ...

On March 27 — 15 days after its launch — SPHEREx saw its first light, proving its instruments performed as designed. This ...

The space-based observatory, launched at the end of March, released its first set of images, in which a cloud of dust ...

SPHEREx, which the U.S. space agency sent on a mission to unravel some of the universe's biggest mysteries, first released a debut batch of uncalibrated images in April unsuited for scientific study.

The SPHEREx observatory won't be the first to map the entire sky, but it will be the first to do so in so many colors. It observes 102 wavelengths , or colors, of infrared light, which are ...

Scientists hope SPHEREx will provide data lending new insights into the origins of the universe and whether the ingredients for life exist anywhere else in our Milky Way galaxy. The telescope ...