The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

Following a checkout period lasting one month, the observatory – which measures 8.5 feet tall, 10.5 feet across, and weighs 1 ...

Besides the telescope, SpaceX’s Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch.

By MARCIA DUNN NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic ...

The cone-shaped Spherex — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view.

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

NASA's Newest Space Telescope Blasts off to Map the Entire Sky and Millions of Galaxies NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a ...