From its position in a low-Earth, Sun-synchronous orbit, the telescope will have to map the entire sky a total of four times during its primary two-year mission. There is hope that the SPHEREx ...

NASA’s latest space telescope, SPHEREx, has officially begun its journey into the cosmos ... building a three-dimensional map ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

The telescope’s infrared detectors will be able to distinguish 102 colors invisible to the human eye, yielding the most colorful, inclusive map ever made of the cosmos. It's like "looking at the ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...