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Zwicky Transient Facility Opens Its Eyes to the Volatile Cosmos

Project News • November 14th, 2017

The latest workhorse camera at the Palomar Observatory can scan the majority of the northern sky every night, looking for cosmic events as they happen.

Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars

Project News • November 13th, 2017

To explore low-frequency gravitational waves, researchers look to a natural experiment in the sky called a pulsar timing array.

Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought

Project News • July 25th, 2017

Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study. Because they spend most of their time far from our area of the solar system, many "long-period comets" will never approach the Sun in a person's lifetime.

Hidden Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller

Project News • July 11th, 2017

A new study suggests some exoplanets are less dense than previously thought because of a second, hidden star in their systems.

IPAC welcomes four undergraduate students as part of NASA-funded FIELDS program

IPAC News • June 23rd, 2017

Undergraduate students from the University of California, Riverside, join IPAC this summer to carry out research projects in the field of Big Data handling and visualization under the mentorship of IPAC science staff.

NEOWISE 2017 Data Release

Project News • June 1st, 2017

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and IPAC present the NEOWISE 2017 Data Release. The 3-year NEOWISE archive now contains over 7.7 million calibrated image sets and a database of over 57 billion source detections.

Charles Beichman Awarded the R. M. Petrie Prize

IPAC News • May 26th, 2017

Charles (Chas) Beichman, executive director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech/IPAC and JPL Senior Scientist, has been awarded the R. M Petrie Prize by the Canadian Astronomical Society in recognition of his significant contributions and discoveries in the field of infrared...

We must keep searching the sky!

IPAC News • April 14th, 2017

Read an interview with IPAC's asteroid scientist and TED Fellow Carrie Nugent who published her first book "Asteroid Hunters" last months as part of the TED book series.

NASA announces Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows for 2017

IPAC News • March 31st, 2017

NASA has selected 28 fellows for its prestigious Einstein, Hubble and Sagan fellowships. Learn more about the 2017 fellows...

IPAC Scientists Aid in Unveiling First Known System of 7 Earth-size Planets with Spitzer

IPAC News • February 22nd, 2017

IPAC scientists Sean Carey and Jim Ingalls were part of an international team of astronomers who discovered the first known system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a single star. The finding was made possible with over 21 days of near-continuous Spitzer Space Telescope observations of...

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