Alex Valdez/USSF 30th Space Wing/NASA PUNCH is designed to measure both the corona and the broader cocoon of solar wind swaddling our solar system. The mission consists of four 140-pound ...

The space observatory shared a ride with the four small satellites that make up NASA’s PUNCH mission, which will study how the sun's outer atmosphere becomes solar wind. The two missions are ...

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 newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH are on their way to space. Both missions ...

NASA is preparing to launch the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions to uncover the universe's profound secrets. SPHEREx will utilize infrared detectors to collect cosmic light from hundreds of millions of ...

PUNCH launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, sharing its ride to space with NASA's SPHEREx observatory—the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization ...

and it wasn't only because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies carrying precious NASA cargo. As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital ...

WHEN the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 11, 2025, it carried with it not just advanced scientific instruments, ...

March 12 (UPI) --NASA and SpaceX successfully launched their SPHEREx and PUNCH missions into orbit Tuesday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, 24 hours after poor weather and a ...

"It feels really great to have SPHEREx in space." NASA's SPHEREx (at center) and PUNCH (at left and right) spacecraft are seen after they were deployed separately into Earth orbit following their ...