Our quest to find a “second Earth” has long occupied scientists and dreamers alike. The possibility of another world ...

The telescope got off the ground at at 8:10 p.m. PDT Tuesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The space observatory ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

and the resulting solar wind.The evening launch was delayed two weeks because of rocket and other issues. NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode ... "It feels really great to have SPHEREx in space." This launch follows an unexpected string of several delays, unfortunate ...