Project News

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.

NEOWISE 2017 Data Release

NEOWISE • June 1st, 2017

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and IPAC present the NEOWISE 2017 Data Release. The 3-year NEOWISE archive now contains over 7.7 million calibrated...

Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole

Spitzer • May 25th, 2017

Astronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a black hole.

Astronomers Confirm Orbital Details of TRAPPIST-1h

Spitzer • May 22nd, 2017

Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system that confirmed suspected details about the...

'Warm Neptune' Has Unexpectedly Primitive Atmosphere

Spitzer • May 11th, 2017

A study combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost entirely of...