IPAC News

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

• 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?”

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

• 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...

Oddball exoplanet challenges what it means to be a hot Jupiter

• 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...

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

• 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...

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

• 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...

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

• 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,...

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

• 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.

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

• 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...

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

• 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...

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

• January 7th, 2026

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