Project News

NASA Confirms PRIMA Mission; Key Roles for Caltech, JPL, and IPAC

Probe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics • September 23rd, 2026

NASA announced today the selection of a new space telescope that will explore the cold, dusty universe in far‑infrared light, providing the ability to view cosmic objects and...

NASA Activates Roman’s Primary Instrument, Checks Out Coronagraph

Roman • September 15th, 2026

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the Wide Field Instrument, a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow scientists to explore wide...

NASA Roman’s Planet Imager Has Powered On

Roman • September 1st, 2026

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the mission’s Coronagraph Instrument, which will block starlight to view planets and dusty disks around...

NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches

Roman • August 30th, 2026

Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at...

NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Study of Exoplanets, Host Stars

NASA Exoplanet Archive • August 25th, 2026

Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency's Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique observations of worlds beyond...

NASA Sets Coverage for Roman Space Telescope Launch from Florida

Roman • August 24th, 2026

Coverage plans are ready for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA’s next-generation observatory designed to explore some of...

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory Opens Deep Window on Famous Cosmic Field

Vera C. Rubin Observatory • July 31st, 2026

A new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory image featuring hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies in and around the COSMOS field marks the Observatory’s first LSST Camera image...

ZTF spots a ZTF spots a stealthy black hole wandering at the edge of a galaxy

ZTF • July 28th, 2026

A team of international astronomers, expert hunters of black holes, decided to search for supermassive black holes not only at the center of galaxies where they are typically...

Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana Opens the 2026 Sagan Summer Workshop

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • July 24th, 2026

Caltech President Ray Jayawardhana kicked off the 2026 Sagan Summer Workshop by sharing a look back on his own time as a graduate student in 1999 attending an earlier version of...

Why do galaxies have spirals?

Euclid • July 17th, 2026

For generations, astronomers have been puzzled by a deceptively simple question: Why do some spiral galaxies have two arms while others have many? Researchers at East Tennessee...