IPAC News • January 23rd, 2026
At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this zone, revealing stars, planets, and unique objects that resist definition.
NASA Exoplanet Archive • January 12th, 2026
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite lifted off at 5:44 a.m. PST Sunday, Jan. 11, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base...
IPAC News • January 8th, 2026
Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of super-heated gas ever observed flowing from a nearby...
ALMA Large Program to Investigate C+ at Early Times • January 8th, 2026
Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new...
IPAC News • February 25th, 2026
On January 22, 2026, dozens of IPAC staff members were recognized at the NASA Honor Awards ceremony. With Group Achievement Awards handed out to teams working on Euclid,...
IPAC News • February 22nd, 2026
Carl Grillmair, an astronomer at Caltech's IPAC science and data center for astronomy and planetary science, passed away suddenly on February 16, 2026. He was 67 years old.
At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the...
IPAC News • January 7th, 2026
Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form.
IPAC News • December 23rd, 2025
Wishing all our colleagues the very, very best for 2026!
Euclid • March 3rd, 2026
For this month’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month, NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope is joined by ESA’s Euclid to create a new view of the most visually intricate remnants of a...
Euclid • February 26th, 2026
Hubble, Euclid, and Subaru have jointly uncovered a dark galaxy, evidenced by a faint, diffuse glow surrounding star clusters.
Euclid • February 19th, 2026
ENSCI received NASA award “For group achievement in successful delivery of calibration and software updates for processing Euclid-NISP instrument data during the first six...
Euclid • February 12th, 2026
ENSCI User Panel has released its December 2025 report, with positive evaluation of ENSCI performance, and recommendations for future planning.
SPHEREx • February 4th, 2026
NASA’s SPHEREx mission turned its infrared gaze on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in December 2025, adding to the deep pool of information the agency has gathered on what is only...
SPHEREx • February 2nd, 2026
The SPHEREx Mission Team wins the Sylvia A. Earle Award for Exploration Excellence.
