February 25, 2025 4:49 PM

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope to explore what happened right after the Big Bang

NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that initiated the universe and to search the Milky Way for reservoirs of water, a crucial ingredient for life. The U.S. space agency's SPHEREx space telescope is tentatively scheduled to be launched on Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SPHEREx - short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe...