Project News

How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Will Make a Looping Voyage to the Moon

Lunar Trailblazer • February 13th, 2025

Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit.

NASA Successfully Joins Sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘Exoskeleton’

Roman • February 12th, 2025

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light...

NASA Scientists Spot Candidate for Speediest Exoplanet System

Roman • February 10th, 2025

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving...

Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring in Our Cosmic Backyard

Euclid • February 10th, 2025

The phenomenon appears to encircle the center of a well-studied elliptical galaxy called NGC 6505, around 590 million light-years from Earth.

SPHEREx L-30 News Briefing

SPHEREx • January 31st, 2025

NASA previews SPHEREx, space telescope mission to explore universe’s origins.

SPHEREx Begins Integration with PUNCH

SPHEREx • January 29th, 2025

The SPHEREx Observatory has completed standalone operations in the West High Bay at Astrotech Space Operations Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The...

Spacecraft Makers: SPHEREx and the Intense Tests That Prepared It for Space

SPHEREx • January 28th, 2025

Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx aims to capture millions of stars and galaxies in 102 colors,...

High school teachers and students continue doing real astronomy research

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • January 24th, 2025

It’s time! At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 12 through January 16 in National Harbor, MD, 14 astronomy educators and 14 of...

Rehearsing for the Big Moment

SPHEREx • January 23rd, 2025

During payload testing, the SPHEREx team prepared for launch and post-launch operations. In October 2024, we conducted the first Operational Readiness Test (ORT), simulating...

New Simulated Universe Previews Panoramas From NASA’s Roman Telescope

Roman • January 14th, 2025

Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see it. This preview will...