It’s a two-for-one cosmic deal. NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH are on their way to ...

On August 7, 2025, NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission reached a pivotal milestone by successfully positioning all four of its spacecraft into their final science ...

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(CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, will have to wait a bit longer to lift off ...

PUNCH consists of four small spacecraft, each about the size of a suitcase, which will work together in a constellation to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the solar wind. Currently at Vandenberg ...

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