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NEOWISE Final Release Now Available

Project News • November 15th, 2024

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the NEOWISE Final Data Release.

NASA’s NEOWISE Spacecraft Re-Enters Atmosphere, But More Discoveries Await!

Project News • November 4th, 2024

NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday night, as expected. Launched in 2009 as the WISE mission, the spacecraft has been mapping the entire sky at infrared wavelengths over and over for nearly...

How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Could Decipher the Moon’s Icy Secrets

Project News • October 29th, 2024

There’s water on the Moon, but scientists only have a general idea of where it is and what form it is in. A trailblazing NASA mission will get some answers.

ARIEL Takes Shape and First Shake

Project News • October 29th, 2024

The construction phase of ESA’s ARIEL mission has started at Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse (France) with the assembly of the spacecraft’s structural model. This marks a significant step forward for this mission designed to meticulously inspect the atmospheres of a thousand exoplanets and...

NASA Funds Open-Source Software Underpinning Scientific Innovation

IPAC News • October 24th, 2024

NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for the benefit of all. IPAC Software Developer Brigitta Sipőcz led a proposal titled "Enhancement of Infrastructure and...

Dandelion Supernova Revealed in 3-D

Project News • October 24th, 2024

New observations probe a sphere of filaments around a dead star.

Latest news from IRSA: e-newsletter issue 2024.5

Project News • October 14th, 2024

The latest e-newsletter from IRSA is available! Highlights include the Zwicky Transient Facility Data Release 22, COSMOS UltraVista DR 6 images, unWISE Data in Amazon Open Data Repository and ...IPAC & IRSA job opportunities.

NASA Establishes New Class of Astrophysics Missions, Selects Studies

Project News • October 9th, 2024

Two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space were selected by NASA for additional review. Each proposal team will receive $5 million to conduct a 12-month mission concept study. After detailed evaluation of those studies, NASA expects to select one...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Spacecraft Completes Environmental Testing

Project News • September 16th, 2024

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft recently completed the shaking, chilling, baking, and other testing needed to ensure it can survive launch and the harsh conditions of space. Now that environmental testing is done, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, is putting...

Explore Exoplanets - The Discoverers (Episode 16)

Project News • September 12th, 2024

Did the movie Avatar predict the discovery of the holy grail of exoplanets: a nearby Earth-like rocky planet orbiting a Sun-like star? Drs. Jessie Christiansen and Ashley Chontos continue their conversation about Ashley's favorite fictional planet—and Jessie reveals whether she's found Pandora's...

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