Project News

SPHEREx Space Telescope Stays Cool in Basement at Caltech

SPHEREx • September 22nd, 2023

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has been tucked inside a custom-built chamber on and off for the past two months undergoing tests to prepare it for its two-year mission in space....

Primary Instrument for NASA’s Roman Completed, Begins Tests

Roman • September 13th, 2023

A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in...

ARIEL Passes Major Milestone

Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey • August 23rd, 2023

ARIEL, the European Space Agency’s next-generation mission to observe the chemical make-up of distant extrasolar planets, has passed a major milestone after successfully...

SPHEREx put to the test in KASI thermal vacuum chamber

SPHEREx • August 22nd, 2023

In this timelapse movie, scientists and engineers can be seen preparing NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope for tests inside a vacuum chamber at Caltech that simulates the...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Payload for Moon Water Hunt

Lunar Trailblazer • August 16th, 2023

The spacecraft’s Lunar Thermal Mapper science instrument will work with an imaging spectrometer to help researchers understand the nature of water on the Moon’s surface.

System Level Testing of the SPHEREx Instrument Completed Successfully

SPHEREx • August 3rd, 2023

The SPHEREx team completed the first successful testing of the SPHEREx flight instrument – detector assemblies, telescope, and thermal control system.

New Study Reveals NASA’s Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

Roman • July 19th, 2023

New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that...

NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up To Investigate Dark Energy

Roman • June 27th, 2023

A new space telescope named Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with important contributions from NASA, is set to launch in July to explore why the universe’s...

Astronomers Discover Extremely Warped Supernova

ZTF • June 12th, 2023

Astronomers have captured a bizarre image of a supernova, the powerful explosion of a star, whose light was so warped by the gravity of another galaxy that it appears as...

IRSA Newsletter: Issue 2023.4

Infrared Science Archive • May 24th, 2023

The latest IRSA Newsletter has information about ZTF Data Release 17, COSMOS2020 Catalog Release, availability of data from the IRTF/TEXES instrument, and IRSA Viewer updates.