Project News

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

Roman • March 12th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper into this region than any...

NED February 2024 Release

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database • February 29th, 2024

NED announces the February 2024 release. Highlights include updates on holdings, references and object pointers, new objects and cross-IDs, redshifts and more!

Building Precision Instruments to Explore the Cosmos

SPHEREx • February 19th, 2024

Phil Korngut tests NASA’s SPHEREx telescope under extreme conditions in the SPHEREx laboratory in California.

New NASA Mission will Study Ultraviolet Sky, Stars, Stellar Explosions

Ultraviolet Explorer • February 13th, 2024

As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and...

NASA’s Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe

Roman • February 7th, 2024

Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new...

NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test

Roman • January 31st, 2024

A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.

NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

Roman • January 17th, 2024

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever...

Observers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fed

Spitzer • January 15th, 2024

A team of scientists led by the Observatory of Munich University and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have obtained direct visualization of the process of feeding the...

The aftermath of a supernova seen for the first time

ZTF • January 10th, 2024

A team of astronomers from the ZTF partnership used ZTF and a suite of other telescopes available to the ZTF partners to discover and analyze supernova SN2022jli. While...

High School Teachers and Students Continue Doing Real Astronomy Research

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • January 10th, 2024

At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 7 through January 11 in New Orleans, LA, 18 astronomy educators and 21 of their students...