Project News

Liftoff of Pandora - NASA’s Newest Planet-Observing Satellite

NASA Exoplanet Archive • January 12th, 2026

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite lifted off at 5:44 a.m. PST Sunday, Jan. 11, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base...

Young Galaxies Grow Up Fast

ALMA Large Program to Investigate C+ at Early Times • January 8th, 2026

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new...

NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond

NASA Exoplanet Archive • January 8th, 2026

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars.

Teaching the Teacher: How Educators and Students Conduct Authentic NASA Research

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • January 6th, 2026

At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 4 through January 8 in Phoenix, AZ, 8 astronomy educators and their students from the...

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other

SPHEREx • December 18th, 2025

Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared...

Astronomer may have spotted a rare hypothesized merger

ZTF • December 16th, 2025

In a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers led by ZTF's principal investigator Mansi Kasliwal describe an oddball cosmic event known...

Astronomers see gravitationally lensed superluminous supernovae for the first time

ZTF • December 12th, 2025

In late August this year, the Zwicky Transient Facility was routinely scanning the night sky for transient and variable events. Joel Johansson from the Oskar Klein Center...

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Cycle 1 Call for Proposals

Roman • December 10th, 2025

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Cycle 1 Call for Proposals is open! It marks the first opportunity to submit proposals to conduct scientific investigations with Roman’s...

NASA funds Euclid science in ROSES 2025

Euclid • December 4th, 2025

Starting in 2025, NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) includes Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) investigations based on data releases from...

NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction

Roman • December 3rd, 2025

NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest...