SPHEREx stands for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer.

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

A brand new NASA space observatory, SPHEREx, has taken its first test images a few weeks after its launch on March 11, and ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking ...

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

It will be visible in Irish skies from ... “What’s happening is that light is passing through the atmosphere, but the shorter wavelengths – yellow, green, blue – get scattered away.