Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

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

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

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx to use its ...

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 ...