Project News

NASA Confirms Roman Mission's Flight Design in Milestone Review

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • September 29th, 2021

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its critical design review, signaling that all design and developmental engineering work is now complete.

Navigating the Pandemic: Record Attendance AT NExScI’s Sagan Summer Workshop

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • September 23rd, 2021

In a world gone virtual due to a pandemic, the 2021 Sagan Summer Workshop (SSW) was a shining success. A record number of more than 800 mostly early-career astronomers from...

A New Understanding of Galaxy Evolution with NASA’s Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • September 21st, 2021

When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in the mid-2020s, it will revolutionize astronomy by providing a panoramic field of view at least 100 times greater than...

Public Data Release 7

ZTF • September 8th, 2021

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the seventh ZTF Public Data Release. ZTF is an optical time-domain survey...

An Accidental Discovery Hints at a Hidden Population of Cosmic Objects

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • August 31st, 2021

A new study offers a tantalizing explanation for how a peculiar cosmic object called WISEA J153429.75-104303.3 – nicknamed “The Accident” – came to be.

An Accidental Discovery Hints at a Hidden Population of Cosmic Objects

Spitzer • August 31st, 2021

Brown dwarfs aren’t quite stars and aren’t quite planets, and a new study suggests there might be more of them lurking in our galaxy than scientists previously thought.

Lunar Trailblazer Is Building the Flight System to Fly to the Moon

Lunar Trailblazer • August 31st, 2021

On July 15th 2021, Lunar Trailblazer successfully passed its Critical Design Review (CDR). This review incorporated all the systems of the Lunar Trailblazer. The CDR review...

Astronomers Find a ‘Break’ in One of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms

Spitzer • August 17th, 2021

The newly discovered feature offers insight into the large-scale structure of our galaxy, which is difficult to study from Earth’s position inside it.

Stars Are Exploding in Dusty Galaxies. We Just Can’t Always See Them

Spitzer • August 4th, 2021

Exploding stars generate dramatic light shows. Infrared telescopes like Spitzer can see through the haze and to give a better idea of how often these explosions occur.

Ground System for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Moves into Development

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • July 29th, 2021

On July 23, the Roman Space Telescope successfully completed the critical design review of the mission’s ground systems.