Project News

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...

ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope Finds Universe’s Most Ancient Quasars

Euclid • July 6th, 2026

Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the oldest quasars ever documented.Two are the oldest ever observed, dating back to the universe’s infancy.

Euclid View of Milky Way Heart Previews Core Survey by NASA’s Roman

Roman • June 24th, 2026

A new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy by Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, overlaps with a region scientists will observe with...