Project News

Euclid Citizen Science: Space Warps

Euclid • News Release • May 8th, 2026

A new Euclid citizen science project, Space Warps, has been launched on the Zooniverse platform! You can join to help find strong gravitational lenses in the Euclid data.

NASA’s Next-Gen Near-Earth Asteroid Space Telescope Takes Shape

Near-Earth Object Surveyor • Project News • May 5th, 2026

The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor — NASA’s first infrared space telescope purposely designed to discover potentially hazardous asteroids and comets — is undergoing integration and testing. With launch set for no earlier than September 2027, teams across the United States are hard at work...

Euclid survey passes 5000 sq deg mark

Euclid • News Release • May 1st, 2026

On March 31, 2026, Euclid mission has surveyed 5000 square degrees of the dark Universe! This is an exciting landmark in the 14,000 square degree Euclid Wide Survey.

SPHEREx Honored with RNASA Stellar Award

SPHEREx • News Release • April 30th, 2026

The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement awarded their 2026 Stellar Award to JPL's SPHEREx team for their outstanding contributions to space science and technology.

ZTF welcomes a new European partner

ZTF • News Release • April 16th, 2026

A collaboration consisting of the German Center for Astrophysics in Gorlitz, the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam and the German Electron Synchrotron DESY is officially joining the Zwicky Transient Facility partnership, expanding our scientific collaborative network...

'Interstellar Glaciers': NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Vast Galactic Ice Regions

SPHEREx • News Release • April 15th, 2026

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped interstellar ice at an unprecedented scale. Covering regions in our Milky Way galaxy more than 600 light-years across, the ice was found inside giant molecular clouds —...

ENSCI at AAS #248 in Pasadena

Euclid • News Release • April 2nd, 2026

Mark your calendars for AAS #248! ENSCI will hold an Euclid data workshop, and lead a special session on Euclid (abstract submission deadline for contributed talks and posters: April 20).

NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • Project News • March 25th, 2026

How Two Dim Stars Came Together to Shine Brightly

ZTF • News Release • March 18th, 2026

Brown dwarfs are often labeled as "failed stars" for their inability to sustain nuclear fusion at their cores. A new finding led by researchers at Caltech shows how these dim bulbs can join together to shine brightly. Searching through archival observations captured by the Zwicky Transient...

Hubble & Euclid zoom into cosmic eye

Euclid • News Release • March 3rd, 2026

For this month’s ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month, NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope is joined by ESA’s Euclid to create a new view of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543.