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Ready to Roman: Caltech Teams Celebrate Telescope Launch, Look Ahead to Future

IPAC News • August 30th, 2026

The next generation of exoplanet imaging technology, designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for the agency, has launched aboard NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The flagship observatory lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at 4:26 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Sunday, August 30, 2026, and will observe the universe from a vantage point about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) away from Earth in the direction opposite the Sun.

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New JWST images of abnormally well-developed galaxy cluster open up the “cosmic noon” frontier

IPAC News • June 17th, 2026

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope add to the intrigue surrounding a young, but surprisingly mature galaxy cluster from the early universe that challenges...

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Oddball exoplanet challenges what it means to be a hot Jupiter

IPAC News • June 16th, 2026

New research led by a scientist at IPAC—a science and data center for astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech—studying the hot Jupiter CoRoT-2 b has settled on one of the...

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Finding Patterns in Planets: Researchers Explore the Demographics of Alien Worlds in K2 Data

IPAC News • June 3rd, 2026

The Kepler mission and its follow-on K2 discovered thousands of exoplanets around different types of stars, and new work reveals broader trends in the planetary populations of...

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Ready to Roman: Caltech Teams Celebrate Telescope Launch, Look Ahead to Future

IPAC News • August 30th, 2026

The next generation of exoplanet imaging technology, designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for the agency, has launched aboard...

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IRSA Appoints New Leadership

IPAC News • August 19th, 2026

Anastasia Laity has been appointed the new Task Lead for the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) effective August 3, 2026. She steps into the role previously held by...

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People of IPAC: New Leaders, New Roles, New Staff

IPAC News • July 8th, 2026

There were many changes in the IPAC team in the first half of 2026. We filled 17 positions with people who either joined IPAC afresh or with existing staff who transitioned to...

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IPAC Celebrates Its 40th at AAS with Visual/IR Photos!

IPAC News • June 25th, 2026

At the AAS 248 conference in Pasadena, IPAC hosted a reception for conference attendees. Did you “step up, get scanned and ... see yourself in a new light?”

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New JWST images of abnormally well-developed galaxy cluster open up the “cosmic noon” frontier

IPAC News • June 17th, 2026

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope add to the intrigue surrounding a young, but surprisingly mature galaxy cluster from the early universe that challenges...

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Oddball exoplanet challenges what it means to be a hot Jupiter

IPAC News • June 16th, 2026

New research led by a scientist at IPAC—a science and data center for astrophysics and planetary science at Caltech—studying the hot Jupiter CoRoT-2 b has settled on one of the...

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NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches

Roman • August 30th, 2026

Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at...

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NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Study of Exoplanets, Host Stars

NASA Exoplanet Archive • August 25th, 2026

Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency's Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique observations of worlds beyond...

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NASA Sets Coverage for Roman Space Telescope Launch from Florida

Roman • August 24th, 2026

Coverage plans are ready for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA’s next-generation observatory designed to explore some of...

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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory Opens Deep Window on Famous Cosmic Field

Vera C. Rubin Observatory • July 31st, 2026

A new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory image featuring hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies in and around the COSMOS field marks the Observatory’s first LSST Camera image...

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Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana Opens the 2026 Sagan Summer Workshop

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • July 24th, 2026

Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana kicked off the 2026 Sagan Summer Workshop by sharing a look back on his own time as a graduate student in 1999 attending an earlier version of...

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Why do galaxies have spirals?

Euclid • July 17th, 2026

For generations, astronomers have been puzzled by a deceptively simple question: Why do some spiral galaxies have two arms while others have many? Researchers at East Tennessee...

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