NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) was built for the ambitious purpose of performing an all-sky survey. The data it collects ...

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Comets usually fade quietly once they swing past the Sun. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS did not follow the same path. Instead, ...

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope detected organic molecules coming off comet 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar visitor made its closest approach to Earth in December.

SPHEREx tracked the interstellar comet as it grew considerably brighter after perihelion.

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission observed infrared emissions from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, documenting changes in dust, gas, and ...

The telescope is called Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer, or SPHEREx, and it departed our world in March 2025. Once in space, it positioned ...

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope detected methanol, cyanide and methane, key ingredients for life, in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during its December 2025 flyby.

Less than a year into its mission, NASA’s SPHEREx has already completed its first full survey of the sky, producing a near-infrared map that captures the entire cosmos in a staggering 102 colors.

NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft has detected organic molecules on comet 3I/ATLAS, leading scientists to speculate it could be seeding life across the universe.