IPAC News

IPAC's Roc Cutri Awarded The Van Biesbroeck Prize

IPAC News • January 21st, 2020

The Van Biesbroeck Prize is normally awarded every two years and honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy, often beyond the requirements of his or her paid position.

IPAC/NExScI Deputy Director, Dr. Dawn Gelino, Gives TEDxCERN Talk

IPAC News • December 19th, 2018

Dr. Dawn Gelino, IPAC/NExScI Deputy Director, gives a talk at TEDxCERN on "Looking for Life on Exoplanets".

Caltech/IPAC astronomer wins 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award

IPAC News • August 14th, 2018

BJ Fulton, a scientist at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) at Caltech/IPAC is being honored with the 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award.

42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly

IPAC News • June 27th, 2018

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), home of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), announces the 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly which we are honored to host on behalf of COSPAR and the US National Academy of Sciences in beautiful Pasadena, California, on 14-22 July, 2018.

18th Annual Greater IPAC Science Symposium

IPAC News • June 4th, 2018

The eighteenth annual Greater IPAC Science Symposium will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, June 20 and 21, 2018. The Science Symposium is a forum for presenting, discussing and learning more about the diverse research that is being carried out across the Greater IPAC.

IPAC welcomes four undergraduate students as part of NASA-funded FIELDS program

IPAC News • June 23rd, 2017

Undergraduate students from the University of California, Riverside, join IPAC this summer to carry out research projects in the field of Big Data handling and visualization under the mentorship of IPAC science staff.

Charles Beichman Awarded the R. M. Petrie Prize

IPAC News • May 26th, 2017

Charles (Chas) Beichman, executive director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech/IPAC and JPL Senior Scientist, has been awarded the R. M Petrie Prize by the Canadian Astronomical Society in recognition of his significant contributions and discoveries in the field of infrared...

We must keep searching the sky!

IPAC News • April 14th, 2017

Read an interview with IPAC's asteroid scientist and TED Fellow Carrie Nugent who published her first book "Asteroid Hunters" last months as part of the TED book series.

NASA announces Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows for 2017

IPAC News • March 31st, 2017

NASA has selected 28 fellows for its prestigious Einstein, Hubble and Sagan fellowships. Learn more about the 2017 fellows...

IPAC Scientists Aid in Unveiling First Known System of 7 Earth-size Planets with Spitzer

IPAC News • February 22nd, 2017

IPAC scientists Sean Carey and Jim Ingalls were part of an international team of astronomers who discovered the first known system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a single star. The finding was made possible with over 21 days of near-continuous Spitzer Space Telescope observations of...

IPAC's Roc Cutri Awarded The Van Biesbroeck Prize

• January 21st, 2020

The Van Biesbroeck Prize is normally awarded every two years and honors a living individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy, often beyond the...

IPAC/NExScI Deputy Director, Dr. Dawn Gelino, Gives TEDxCERN Talk

• December 19th, 2018

Dr. Dawn Gelino, IPAC/NExScI Deputy Director, gives a talk at TEDxCERN on "Looking for Life on Exoplanets".

Caltech/IPAC astronomer wins 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award

• August 14th, 2018

BJ Fulton, a scientist at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) at Caltech/IPAC is being honored with the 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award.

42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly

• June 27th, 2018

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech), home of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), announces the 42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly which we are honored to host on...

18th Annual Greater IPAC Science Symposium

• June 4th, 2018

The eighteenth annual Greater IPAC Science Symposium will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, June 20 and 21, 2018. The Science Symposium is a forum for presenting, discussing...

IPAC welcomes four undergraduate students as part of NASA-funded FIELDS program

• June 23rd, 2017

Undergraduate students from the University of California, Riverside, join IPAC this summer to carry out research projects in the field of Big Data handling and visualization...

Charles Beichman Awarded the R. M. Petrie Prize

• May 26th, 2017

Charles (Chas) Beichman, executive director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech/IPAC and JPL Senior Scientist, has been awarded the R. M Petrie Prize by the...

We must keep searching the sky!

• April 14th, 2017

Read an interview with IPAC's asteroid scientist and TED Fellow Carrie Nugent who published her first book "Asteroid Hunters" last months as part of the TED book series.

NASA announces Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows for 2017

• March 31st, 2017

NASA has selected 28 fellows for its prestigious Einstein, Hubble and Sagan fellowships. Learn more about the 2017 fellows...

IPAC Scientists Aid in Unveiling First Known System of 7 Earth-size Planets with Spitzer

• February 22nd, 2017

IPAC scientists Sean Carey and Jim Ingalls were part of an international team of astronomers who discovered the first known system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a single...