Project News

Euclid DR1 coverage

Euclid • October 9th, 2025

ESA has released the planned sky coverage of the much-anticipated first public data release from Euclid Wide Survey, Data Release 1 (DR1).

ESA workshop on Euclid Q1 data

Euclid • October 2nd, 2025

European Space Agency (ESA) will have a workshop on "Working with Euclid Q1: From Data Access to Science Workshop", December 1-3, 2025, in Spain. It is open to all researchers!

Mansi Kasliwal to head Palomar Observatory

ZTF • October 1st, 2025

Mansi Kasliwal, the ZTF principal investigator and a professor of astronomy at Caltech is stepping into a new role as a director of the historic Palomar...

Euclid Flagship Simulations Now Public

Euclid • September 25th, 2025

Euclid Flagship Simulations provide a virtual Universe to support the Euclid mission. The resultant synthetic galaxy catalog is now publicly available!

The NASA Exoplanet Archive Hits 6,000 Planets

NASA Exoplanet Archive • September 17th, 2025

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Unveil Our Home Galaxy Using Cosmic Dust

Roman • September 16th, 2025

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy’s less sparkly components — gas and dust strewn between stars, known as the...

SPHEREx Spectrophotometry Tool Available via IRSA

Infrared Science Archive • September 12th, 2025

IRSA has released a new Spectrophotometry Tool for measuring spectra from the public SPHEREx Quick Release Spectral Images. The tool is available in the SPHEREx Data Explorer...

NASA Study: Celestial ‘Accident’ Sheds Light on Jupiter, Saturn Riddle

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • September 9th, 2025

An unusual cosmic object is helping scientists better understand the chemistry hidden deep in Jupiter and Saturn’s atmospheres — and potentially those of exoplanets.

ZTF catches a never-before-seen flare of a supernova

ZTF • September 4th, 2025

A large team of astronomers, led by ZTF partners at the Northwestern university stumbled upon a unique explosion of a supernova from a massive star back in Sept 2021....

20 years of high school teachers and students doing astronomy research at IPAC

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • August 28th, 2025

The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) is celebrating 20 years of high school teachers and students doing astronomy research at IPAC.