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NASA’s Next-Gen Near-Earth Asteroid Space Telescope Takes Shape

Project News • May 5th, 2026

The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor — NASA’s first infrared space telescope purposely designed to discover potentially hazardous asteroids and comets — is undergoing integration and testing. With launch set for no earlier than September 2027, teams across the United States are hard at work building the spacecraft’s components, planning the kind of survey and science it will do, and developing the software to process the huge quantity of data the mission will generate.

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NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • March 25th, 2026

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Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey

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...

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Liftoff of Pandora - NASA’s Newest Planet-Observing Satellite

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...

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Harry Teplitz Named IPAC Head of Science Staff, Roberta Paladini as Deputy

IPAC News • April 6th, 2026

IPAC has named Drs. Harry Teplitz as its new Head of Science Staff (HoSS) and Roberta Paladini as Deputy Head, tasking the senior researchers with leading the center's...

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NASA Honor Awards recognize IPACers working on Euclid, NEOWISE, and Roman

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,...

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Caltech and IPAC Mourn the Passing of Carl Grillmair (1959–2026)

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.

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Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey

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...

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Astronomers Discover the First Galaxy-wide Wobbling Black Hole Jet in a Disk Galaxy

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...

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We finally know how the most common types of planets are created

IPAC News • January 7th, 2026

Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form.

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Euclid Citizen Science: Space Warps

Euclid • May 8th, 2026

A new Euclid citizen science project, Space Warps, has been launched on the Zooniverse platform! You can join to help find strong gravitational lenses in the Euclid data.

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NASA’s Next-Gen Near-Earth Asteroid Space Telescope Takes Shape

Near-Earth Object Surveyor • May 5th, 2026

The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor — NASA’s first infrared space telescope purposely designed to discover potentially hazardous asteroids and comets — is undergoing...

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Euclid survey passes 5000 sq deg mark

Euclid • May 1st, 2026

On March 31, 2026, Euclid mission has surveyed 5000 square degrees of the dark Universe! This is an exciting landmark in the 14,000 square degree Euclid Wide Survey.

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SPHEREx Honored with RNASA Stellar Award

SPHEREx • April 30th, 2026

The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement awarded their 2026 Stellar Award to JPL's SPHEREx team for their outstanding contributions to space science and technology.

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'Interstellar Glaciers': NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions

SPHEREx • April 15th, 2026

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped interstellar ice at an unprecedented scale....

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ENSCI at AAS #248 in Pasadena

Euclid • April 2nd, 2026

Mark your calendars for AAS #248! ENSCI will hold an Euclid data workshop, and lead a special session on Euclid (abstract submission deadline for contributed talks and posters:...

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