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IPAC Director's Update 2025

IPAC News • December 5th, 2025

I was happy to start as the new Executive Director in late May of 2025, and I thank George Helou and the IPAC staff for making IPAC so valuable to the community and such a great place to work. The 2026 federal budget uncertainties have given us challenges, and I'm confident we are up to the task of making good progress nevertheless.

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Charles “Chas” Beichman Steps Down from NExScI Executive Director Role

IPAC News • December 3rd, 2025

Charles “Chas” Beichman has stepped down as Executive Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), effective December 2, 2025. Beichman remains a JPL Fellow and...

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Two different types of asteroids may actually share same origin story

IPAC News • August 20th, 2025

A newly published paper, led by IPAC scientist Joe Masiero, provides evidence that two kinds of asteroids likely formed in the same regions during the beginning of our solar...

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NASA’s JWST Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin

IPAC News • August 7th, 2025

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. At just 4...

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NASA funds Euclid science in ROSES 2025

Euclid • December 4th, 2025

Starting in 2025, NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) includes Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) investigations based on data releases from...

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NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction

Roman • December 3rd, 2025

NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest...

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NEID Discovers a Potentially Earth-like Exoplanet That Could Be Imaged by Next-Generation Telescopes

NN-explore Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler spectroscopy • November 12th, 2025

Today, the NEID Science Team, alongside the Science Team for NEID’s sister spectrograph HPF, announced the discovery of the exoplanet GJ 251c.

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Euclid peers through a dark cloud’s dusty veil

Euclid • November 5th, 2025

This shimmering view of interstellar gas and dust was captured by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The nebula is part of a so-called dark cloud, named LDN...

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Euclid Galactic Bulge Survey

Euclid • October 16th, 2025

Euclid Galactic Bulge Survey covers the region that the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey will observe over 5 years, enabling powerful synergies to maximize science from...

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Euclid DR1 coverage

Euclid • October 9th, 2025

ESA has released the planned sky coverage of the much-anticipated first public data release from Euclid Wide Survey, Data Release 1 (DR1).

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