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

Project News • 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 located on California’s central coast.

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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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Young Galaxies Grow Up Fast

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...

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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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ENSCI has received NASA group achievement award

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...

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ENSCI User Panel December 2025 report released

Euclid • February 12th, 2026

ENSCI User Panel has released its December 2025 report, with positive evaluation of ENSCI performance, and recommendations for future planning.

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NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Tracks Brightening of Interstellar Comet

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...

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SPHEREx Mission Team Wins ECAD Award

SPHEREx • February 2nd, 2026

The SPHEREx Mission Team wins the Sylvia A. Earle Award for Exploration Excellence.

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

Roman • 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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