Project News

NEOWISE 2024 Data Release

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • March 21st, 2024

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the NEOWISE 2024 Data Release.

Euclid successfully de-iced in space

Euclid • March 21st, 2024

First results confirm successful operations to de-ice Euclid, and restore its sharp image resolution in the visible.

SPHEREx Observatory Starts Final Assembly

SPHEREx • March 21st, 2024

The final assembly of the SPHEREx observatory has began.

Discovering 3 Worlds All at Once!

IPAC Communications and Education • March 19th, 2024

What's better than discovering an exoplanet? How about discovering THREE exoplanets...all at once! Early-career researcher Dr. Emily Gilbert talks about the exoplanet bonanza of...

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • March 12th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper into this region than any...

NASA Funding of Euclid Science

Euclid • February 22nd, 2024

NASA has announced plans for a Euclid General Investigator Program as part of Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences – 2024 (ROSES-2024).

Building Precision Instruments to Explore the Cosmos

SPHEREx • February 19th, 2024

Phil Korngut tests NASA’s SPHEREx telescope under extreme conditions in the SPHEREx laboratory in California.

Euclid Survey Begins

Euclid • February 15th, 2024

Euclid has begun its six-year survey to explore the dark Universe!

New NASA Mission will Study Ultraviolet Sky, Stars, Stellar Explosions

Ultraviolet Explorer • February 13th, 2024

As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and...

NASA’s Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • February 7th, 2024

Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new...