Project News

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...

NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • January 31st, 2024

A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.

NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • January 18th, 2024

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever...

Observers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fed

Spitzer • January 15th, 2024

A team of scientists led by the Observatory of Munich University and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have obtained direct visualization of the process of feeding the...

High School Teachers and Students Continue Doing Real Astronomy Research

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • January 10th, 2024

At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 7 through January 11 in New Orleans, LA, 18 astronomy educators and 21 of their students...

ENSCI at AAS #243

Euclid • January 2nd, 2024

Euclid will be represented at the 243th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)! ENSCI staff will be present to answer questions about Euclid. Mark your calendars for...