Announcements

Primary Instrument for NASA’s Roman Completed, Begins Tests

Project News • September 13th, 2023

A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have finished assembling the spacecraft’s giant camera.

ZTF PUBLIC DATA RELEASE 19: Now available

Announcement • September 8th, 2023

NASA Begins Integrating ‘Nervous System’ for Roman Space Telescope

Project News • August 24th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another.

Ariel Passes Major Milestone

Project News • August 23rd, 2023

Ariel, the European Space Agency’s next-generation mission to observe the chemical make-up of distant extrasolar planets, has passed a major milestone after successfully completing its Payload Preliminary Design Review (PDR).

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Payload for Moon Water Hunt

Project News • August 16th, 2023

The spacecraft’s Lunar Thermal Mapper science instrument will work with an imaging spectrometer to help researchers understand the nature of water on the Moon’s surface.

2024 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship Call for Applications

IPAC News • July 25th, 2023

Applicants are invited to apply for the 2024 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship program.

New Study Reveals NASA’s Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

Project News • July 19th, 2023

New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that orbit stars.

#SoCaltech: Dawn Gelino

IPAC News • July 19th, 2023

“I have attended almost every AAS [American Astronomical Society] meeting since I began graduate school in 1996. Every job I’ve ever had was made possible through networking at the meetings. Many years later, I am the newest vice president of the AAS. The official mission of the AAS is to enhance...

IPAC’s Euclid NASA Science Center Is Ready for Launch

IPAC News • June 28th, 2023

It’s official: the Euclid telescope is planned to be launched into space starting on July 1, 2023, to embark on a six-year mission to create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the universe to understand the nature of dark energy and dark matter—and the Euclid NASA Science Center at IPAC (ENSCI)...

NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up To Investigate Dark Energy

Project News • June 27th, 2023

A new space telescope named Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with important contributions from NASA, is set to launch in July to explore why the universe’s expansion is speeding up. Scientists call the unknown cause of this cosmic acceleration “dark energy.” By May 2027, NASA’s...