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Best wishes from your friends and colleagues at IPAC

IPAC News • December 23rd, 2025

Wishing all our colleagues the very, very best for 2026!

IPAC Director's Update 2025

IPAC News • December 5th, 2025

I was happy to start as the new Executive Director in late May of 2025, and I thank George Helou and the IPAC staff for making IPAC so valuable to the community and such a great place to work. The 2026 federal budget uncertainties have given us challenges, and I'm confident we are up to the task...

People of IPAC: New Leaders, New Roles, New Staff

IPAC News • December 5th, 2025

There were many changes in the IPAC team in the second half of 2025. We filled nine positions with people who either joined IPAC afresh or with existing staff who transitioned to new roles. These included leadership changes with David Ciardi becoming the acting NExScI Executive Director, Meca...

Charles “Chas” Beichman Steps Down from NExScI Executive Director Role

IPAC News • December 3rd, 2025

Charles “Chas” Beichman has stepped down as Executive Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), effective December 2, 2025. Beichman remains a JPL Fellow and Caltech Senior Faculty Associate and will serve in an advisory role to IPAC and NExScI leadership as well as to the NASA...

NEID Discovers a Potentially Earth-like Exoplanet That Could Be Imaged by Next-Generation Telescopes

Project News • November 12th, 2025

Today, the NEID Science Team, alongside the Science Team for NEID’s sister spectrograph HPF, announced the discovery of the exoplanet GJ 251c.

The NASA Exoplanet Archive Hits 6,000 Planets

Project News • September 17th, 2025

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

SPHEREx Spectrophotometry Tool Available via IRSA

Project News • September 12th, 2025

IRSA has released a new Spectrophotometry Tool for measuring spectra from the public SPHEREx Quick Release Spectral Images. The tool is available in the SPHEREx Data Explorer web application, making it easy to visualize the extracted spectra.

NASA Study: Celestial ‘Accident’ Sheds Light on Jupiter, Saturn Riddle

Project News • September 9th, 2025

An unusual cosmic object is helping scientists better understand the chemistry hidden deep in Jupiter and Saturn’s atmospheres — and potentially those of exoplanets.

20 years of high school teachers and students doing astronomy research at IPAC

Project News • August 28th, 2025

The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) is celebrating 20 years of high school teachers and students doing astronomy research at IPAC.

Two different types of asteroids may actually share same origin story

IPAC News • August 20th, 2025

A newly published paper, led by IPAC scientist Joe Masiero, provides evidence that two kinds of asteroids likely formed in the same regions during the beginning of our solar system.

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