Announcements

Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights

Project News • October 24th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of stars in search of tell-tale flickers that betray the presence of planets, distant stars, small icy objects that haunt the...

NASA’s Roman Mission Gears Up for a Torrent of Future Data

Project News • October 10th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will return. Recently selected infrastructure teams will serve a vital role in the preliminary work by creating simulations, scouting the skies with...

SPHEREx Space Telescope Stays Cool in Basement at Caltech

News Release • September 22nd, 2023

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has been tucked inside a custom-built chamber on and off for the past two months undergoing tests to prepare it for its two-year mission in space. SPHEREx, which stands for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer,...

Primary Instrument for NASA’s Roman Completed, Begins Tests

Project News • September 13th, 2023

A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have finished assembling the spacecraft’s giant camera.

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Announcement • September 8th, 2023

NASA Begins Integrating ‘Nervous System’ for Roman Space Telescope

Project News • August 24th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another.

Ariel Passes Major Milestone

Project News • August 23rd, 2023

Ariel, the European Space Agency’s next-generation mission to observe the chemical make-up of distant extrasolar planets, has passed a major milestone after successfully completing its Payload Preliminary Design Review (PDR).

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Payload for Moon Water Hunt

Project News • August 16th, 2023

The spacecraft’s Lunar Thermal Mapper science instrument will work with an imaging spectrometer to help researchers understand the nature of water on the Moon’s surface.

2024 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship Call for Applications

IPAC News • July 25th, 2023

Applicants are invited to apply for the 2024 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship program.

New Study Reveals NASA’s Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

Project News • July 19th, 2023

New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that orbit stars.