Project News

Primary Mirror Segment Production has started at Coherent

TMT • January 21st, 2020

Coherent Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of lasers and laser-based technology, is now ready to polish all of the TMT primary mirrors segments to be manufactured in...

First Asteroid Found Inside Orbit of Venus

ZTF • January 15th, 2020

A rare asteroid orbiting snugly within the inner confines of our solar system has been discovered by Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, a survey camera based at...

NASA Pays Tribute, Says Goodbye to One of Agency’s Great Observatories

Spitzer • January 15th, 2020

NASA will host a live program at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 22, to celebrate the far-reaching legacy of the agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope – a mission that, after 16 years of...

Probing the Hubble Constant with NASA's WFIRST

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • January 10th, 2020

Discrepancies in the Hubble constant, which describes how fast the universe is expanding, have vexed astronomers for years. Values predicted from observations of the early...

NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World

Spitzer • January 7th, 2020

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star's habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right...

High school teachers and students doing real astronomy research? Absolutely!

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • January 7th, 2020

Once again, nearly 30 teachers, students and astronomy educators from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) will be attending the winter meeting of the...

Simulated Image Demonstrates the Power of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • January 7th, 2020

Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a strategic space-invader-shaped array a million miles from Earth, scanning the universe at warp speed.

TMT Observatory Safety System Passes Preliminary Design Review

TMT • December 20th, 2019

TMT recently achieved another significant milestone, with the successful preliminary design review of the Observatory Safety System (OSS). The review material was presented by...

Celebrating 10 Years of the WISE Spacecraft

• December 19th, 2019

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft's launch, the mission team has gathered their top 10 images and graphics based on WISE and NEOWISE data.

Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History

Spitzer • December 19th, 2019

This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dust that stretches over 500 light-years across. Home to an...