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NEOWISE 2019 Data Release

Project News • April 11th, 2019

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the NEOWISE 2019 Data Release. The 2019 Data Release includes all data acquired during the fifth year of the NEOWISE Reactivation mission, 13 December 2017 to 13...

Zwicky Transient Facility Nabs Several Supernovae a Night

Project News • February 7th, 2019

The results are rolling in from Caltech's newest state-of-the-art sky-surveying camera, which began operations at the Palomar Observatory in March 2018. Called the Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, the new instrument has so far discovered 50 small near-Earth asteroids and more than 1,100...

Astronomers Find Clues to the Origins of Exploding Dead Stars

Project News • February 7th, 2019

Dying stars known as Type Ia supernovae are often referred to as standard candles because they all emit the same, well-known amount of light when they explode and can therefore be used to measure distances in the universe. GROWTH astronomers have now observed a very peculiar Type Ia supernova...

Asteroid from ‘Rare Species’ Sighted in the Cosmic Wild

Project News • February 5th, 2019

Astronomers have discovered an asteroid looping through the inner solar system on an exotic orbit. The unusual object is among the first asteroids ever found whose orbit is confined almost entirely within the orbit of Venus. The asteroid's existence hints at potentially significant numbers of...

High school teachers and students doing real astronomy research? Absolutely!

Project News • January 9th, 2019

Once again, more than 30 teachers, students and astronomy educators from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) will be attending the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 6 through January 10 in Seattle, WA.

IPAC/NExScI Deputy Director, Dr. Dawn Gelino, Gives TEDxCERN Talk

IPAC News • December 19th, 2018

Dr. Dawn Gelino, IPAC/NExScI Deputy Director, gives a talk at TEDxCERN on "Looking for Life on Exoplanets".

Call for Proposals for 2019A NASA Keck Time

Project News • August 15th, 2018

The call for proposals for NASA Keck time in observing semester 2019A (February 1 - July 31, 2019) is now open for professional research using the NASA allocation for telescope observing time at the W.M. Keck Observatory.

Caltech/IPAC astronomer wins 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award

IPAC News • August 14th, 2018

BJ Fulton, a scientist at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) at Caltech/IPAC is being honored with the 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award.

Cross-Matching the Entire All-Sky 2MASS Point Source Catalog with NED

Project News • August 2nd, 2018

A major update to the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database was released featuring the results of cross-matching the entire all-sky 2MASS Point Source Catalog with NED.

42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly

IPAC News • June 27th, 2018

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), home of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), announces the 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly which we are honored to host on behalf of COSPAR and the US National Academy of Sciences in beautiful Pasadena, California, on 14-22 July, 2018.

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