Project News

Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts

Spitzer • August 17th, 2017

Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clouds -- specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets...

TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System

Spitzer • August 11th, 2017

Researchers say in a new study that the TRAPPIST-1 star is quite old: between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years. This is up to twice as old as our own solar system, which formed some...

Scientists of the Euclid Consortium announce the release of the largest simulated galaxy catalogue ever built

Euclid • July 31st, 2017

A key ingredient in order to prepare the scientific exploitation of the Euclid dataset is the development of synthetic observations of the real survey: a cosmological simulation...

Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought

NEOWISE • July 25th, 2017

Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study. Because they spend most of their time far from our area of the...

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) • July 11th, 2017

A new study suggests some exoplanets are less dense than previously thought because of a second, hidden star in their systems.

New Catalogues for Herschel Legacy Archive

Herschel • June 20th, 2017

Two new catalogues, based on data from ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, have been released to the scientific community. The point source catalogues are examples of a new type...

Dan Masters won the STAR prize for the biggest impact by a postdoc in the Euclid consortium

Euclid • June 16th, 2017

Daniel works on developing techniques to measure distances to the more than a billion galaxies that will be imaged by Euclid, an ESA-led space mission focused on understanding...

The Art of Exoplanets

Spitzer • June 8th, 2017

How do you visualize distant worlds that you can't see? IPAC's Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle are featured in a new video produced by JPL that highlights how they use scientific data...

GALEX • June 6th, 2017

Data from the GALEX spacecraft suggest that planets around cool dwarf stars may be subjected to intense flares.

KOA NIRSPEC Data Release

Keck Observatory Archive • June 5th, 2017

The Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) has released browse-quality spectra extracted with a new, automated pipeline from 1,821 nights of NIRSPEC high-dispersion data.