IPAC News

Best wishes from your friends and colleagues at IPAC

• December 23rd, 2025

Wishing all our colleagues the very, very best for 2026!

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

• December 5th, 2025

There were many changes in the IPAC team in the second half of 2025. We filled nine positions with people who either joined IPAC afresh or with existing staff who transitioned...

IPAC Director's Update 2025

• 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...

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

• 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...

Two different types of asteroids may actually share same origin story

• 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...

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

• 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...

From Galileo to Galaxies: Astrophysics at the Vatican

• July 1st, 2025

IPAC Executive Director Tom Greene wrapped up a two-week guest teaching stint at the Vatican Observatory Summer School (VOSS) in Italy, where 24 astronomy graduate students from...

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

• June 23rd, 2025

There were many changes in the IPAC team in the first half of 2025. We filled 16 positions with people who either joined IPAC afresh or with existing staff who transitioned to...

Unusual Stellar Nurseries Near Our Galaxy’s Center Puzzle Scientists

• June 9th, 2025

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising results about the rate at which high-mass stars form in...

IPAC Announces New Executive Director, Tom Greene

• May 27th, 2025

Thomas (Tom) Greene, astrophysicist and former Director of the NASA Ames Center for Exoplanet Studies and Chief of the NASA Ames Astrophysics Branch, will join IPAC as its new...