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.

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into 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 beginning of time.

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to map the entire sky and study the universe's beginnings. The device was launched into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope, designed to map the entire sky and study the origins of the universe. The device was launched into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket from the base in California. The SPHEREx space telescope,