The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Instead of using thrusters, SPHEREx relies on a system of reaction wheels to control its orientation. The observatory will ...

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Over the years, cosmologists have tried to map the overall spread of matter through the early universe. In the standard cosmological model, called the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) model ...

These standardized luminous events help us map our universe and are sometimes called standard candles. In the infographic above, it is apparent that Type Ia supernovae appear dimmer the further they ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, known as SPHEREx, is NASA’s newest telescope, designed to map the entire sky in 102 different infrared ...

The telescope launched in 2023, aiming to chart one third of the sky -- encompassing 1.5 billion galaxies -- to create what has been billed as humanity's most accurate 3D map of the universe.