NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a groundbreaking mission to map the entire sky in infrared light. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe,

EST, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will soon roar into the sky, carrying a compact NASA telescope with an extraordinary mission meant to answer some of the biggest questions in science: How did the universe begin?

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