IPAC News

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...