A seperate NASA mission to study the sun also launched with SPHEREx on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks ahead, SPHEREx will begin its two-year mission to scour hundreds of millions of ...

NASA's new space telescope, the SPHEREx observatory, will map the sky on a two-year course over Earth's poles, while four small satellites in the PUNCH mission will study the sun. Advertisement ...

NASA's PUNCH will make global, 3D observations of the inner solar system and the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, to learn how its mass and energy become the solar wind, a stream of charged ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – NASA’s latest space missions are underway which will study everything from the origins of the universe to the atmosphere around the Sun. The observatories launched ...

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PUNCH consists of four small spacecraft, each about the size of a suitcase, which will work together in a constellation to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the solar wind. Currently at Vandenberg ...

Estimated to be around 460 feet in size, PHAs have orbits that bring them as close as within 4.6 million miles of the Earth's orbit around the sun, NASA explains. "Not all NEOs are potentially ...

Also read: NASA initiates workforce reduction, closes several key offices after Trump’s executive order The SPHEREx has four small satellites that will make up PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona ...