Project News

NEOWISE 2018 Data Release

NEOWISE • April 19th, 2018

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and IPAC present the NEOWISE 2018 Data Release. The 4-year NEOWISE archive now contains over 10.2 million calibrated...

NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Spitzer • March 1st, 2018

Much like detectives who study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the...

New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres

Spitzer • February 5th, 2018

In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working hard to better understand these enticing worlds just 40...

ESA releases new artist views of Euclid

Euclid • January 25th, 2018

ESA has released new artist views of Euclid, the space mission to probe the dark Universe. These new images contain details that reflect the progress in the mission implementation.

A ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds

Spitzer • January 22nd, 2018

The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn’t where astrophysicists expected it to be – a discovery that challenges scientists’ understanding of the many...

Citizen Scientists Discover Five-Planet System

Kepler • January 11th, 2018

In its search for exoplanets—planets outside of our solar system—NASA's Kepler telescope trails behind Earth, measuring the brightness of stars that may potentially host...

The journey continues

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) • January 11th, 2018

Again this year, more than 30 teachers, students and astronomy educators from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) are attending the winter meeting of the...

NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy

Spitzer • January 11th, 2018

An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an...

NASA Space Telescopes Provide a 3-D Journey Through the Orion Nebula

Spitzer • January 11th, 2018

Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to create...

Keck awards 10 nights for Euclid calibration

Euclid • December 6th, 2017

Dr. Dan Masters (JPL) is the PI of a successful Keck proposal for a 2-semester, 10 night Key Strategic Mission Support program to complete the Euclid calibration in support of...