Caltech and JPL to Lead U.S. Science Teams for Dark Energy Mission Euclid Tue, Feb 12, 2013

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including two teams led by astronomers at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission Euclid Thu, Jan 24, 2013

NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

ESA approves Euclid mission Euclid Wed, Jun 20, 2012

ESA's Science Program Committee has completed the two stage approval process process of selection and adoption of the Euclid mission.

NASA calls for Euclid Science Investigations Euclid Tue, Feb 14, 2012

NASA has announced an opportunity to propose for Science Investigations as Members of the Euclid Consortium and Euclid Science Team.

NRC endorses NASA participation in Euclid Euclid Fri, Feb 03, 2012

The National Research Council's Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for US Participation in Euclid recommended that NASA should make a hardware contribution to the Euclid mission to enable US participation.

IPAC Astronomer takes on Death Valley in the Death Valley Express Feature Thu, Jul 28, 2011

On August 8, 2011 IPAC astronomer Bill Latter will live a dream by attempting a grand journey and a great challenge - both physically and mentally. Bill will be traveling the Badwater 135 Ultramarathon course on foot. This is a trek from Badwater Basin in Death Valley to the Mt. Whitney Portals above Owens Valley – a distance of 135 miles with extreme heat and 13,000 feet of ascent.

A Night with the Stars...in a Conference Room Feature Tue, May 31, 2011

Sometimes astronomers take trips out to ground-based observatories. They sleep during the day, and, instead of peering up at the night sky, they command the telescopes from computer screens. Some telescopes can also be operated remotely from laptops. JPL scientists Amy Mainzer and Mike Cushing recently spent an evening with the stars in a conference room at NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Longtime Employee of IPAC Reveals Secret to Career Success Feature Mon, May 16, 2011

The summer of 1965 was one of dramatic firsts—Medicaid and Medicare were established, the Beatles played the first stadium concert in rock history, and U.S. astronaut Edward Higgins White made his maiden space walk.

WIRE Reenters Earth's Atmosphere Feature Fri, May 13, 2011

The Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) satellite reentered Earth's atmosphere at about 11:50 p.m. Pacific Time, May 9, 2011, more than 12 years and 68,000 orbits after launch.

IPAC Celebrates 25 Years at Caltech Feature Mon, Feb 14, 2011

Twenty five years ago moving vans were being loaded at the Union Bank, on South Lake Avenue in Pasadena, for the first delivery of "stuff" to the new IPAC Building (Morrisroe Astroscience Laboratory).

Stellar Education: Teachers Bring Classroom Space Science to Astronomy Conference Feature Mon, Jan 10, 2011

Real space science and insights into teaching astronomy come straight from the classroom to a renowned international conference this week. Nearly 60 teachers, students and astronomy educators will be on hand to present the fruits of their year-long labor as participants in NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Wash. from Jan. 9 through Jan. 13, 2011.