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NASA, SpaceX and the telescope

No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about how the Universe, and ultimately life, came to be.

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Weather delays launch of NASA’s newest space telescope set to search for life’s key ingredients

NASA will launch the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

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SpaceX rocket carrying NASA's newest space telescope launches from California

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments.

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Spherex: Nasa's cutting-edge telescope searching for the origins of life

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

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Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning

The Kuiper Belt is a band on the outer edge of the Solar System made up of space’s odds and ends: comets, dwarf planets, and ...

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NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts

Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes ...

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Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

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Webb telescope spots curious objects that aren't stars, or planets

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...