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NASA's PUNCH is set to study how the Sun influences the space around us
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying PUNCH successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:10 P.M. EDT on March ...
SpaceX rocket carrying NASA's newest space telescope launches from California
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...
NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off from Vandenberg to map sky, explore dawn of universe
Besides the telescope, SpaceX’s Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch.
NASA Launches New Space Telescope and Suite of Solar Satellites
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...
NASA launches 'incredible' new tools into space to study the universe, sun's corona
SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...
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What did the eclipse look like from the moon's surface? See photos taken by lunar lander
Totality, whereby the Earth blotted out the sun's disk to reveal the sun's corona ... Few humans have ever witnessed a solar eclipse from outer space. In 1966, Gemini XII astronauts for the ...
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Supernova study suggests space blasts wiped out ancient life on Earth
At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...
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SpaceX rocket launches NASA SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar probes (video)
As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...