Project News

NASA Announces Class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • Project News • April 3rd, 2018

NASA is pleased to introduce the 2018 class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows under the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.

IRTF Archive at IRSA

Infrared Science Archive • Project News • February 27th, 2018

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) Archive is now operational at IRSA. It is currently serving SpeX spectrograph data from the 2016B semester. IRTF is a 3.0m telescope optimized for IR observations, with 50% of the time reserved for studies of Solar System objects.

Jamie Bock Gives Weekly Colloquium

SPHEREx • News Release • February 8th, 2018

Last week, SPHEREx PI Jamie Bock gave the weekly colloquium at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The journey continues

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • Project News • January 11th, 2018

Again this year, more than 30 teachers, students and astronomy educators from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) are attending the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 8 through January 12 in National Harbor, MD.

Citizen Scientists Discover Five-Planet System

Kepler • Project News • January 11th, 2018

In its search for exoplanets—planets outside of our solar system—NASA's Kepler telescope trails behind Earth, measuring the brightness of stars that may potentially host planets. The instrument identifies potential planets around other stars by looking for dips in the brightness of the stars that...

Zwicky Transient Facility Opens Its Eyes to the Volatile Cosmos

ZTF • News Release • November 14th, 2017

The latest workhorse camera at the Palomar Observatory can scan the majority of the northern sky every night, looking for cosmic events as they happen.

Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars

2MASS • Project News • November 13th, 2017

To explore low-frequency gravitational waves, researchers look to a natural experiment in the sky called a pulsar timing array.

Science Data, Discoveries and People: Legacy of the Herschel Space Observatory

Herschel • News Release • September 21st, 2017

The Herschel mission, a trailblazing space observatory that provided a unique view of our cosmos during its almost four years of operations, leaves a legacy of treasured data, thousands of scientific papers, as well as a new generation of astronomers who cut their professional teeth on this...

Herschel's Chronicles of Galaxy Evolution

Herschel • News Release • September 20th, 2017

Delving deep into the history of our cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory scrutinised hundreds of thousands of star-forming galaxies, peering back in time to when the Universe was less than one billion years old. These observations probed the peak epoch of stellar production, about ten billion...

The Cosmic Water Trail Uncovered by Herschel

Herschel • News Release • September 19th, 2017

During almost four years of observing the cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory traced out the presence of water. With its unprecedented sensitivity and spectral resolution at key wavelengths, Herschel revealed this crucial molecule in star-forming molecular clouds, detected it for the first...

NASA Announces Class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • April 3rd, 2018

NASA is pleased to introduce the 2018 class of 2018 Sagan, Hubble and Einstein Postdoctoral Fellows under the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.

IRTF Archive at IRSA

Infrared Science Archive • February 27th, 2018

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) Archive is now operational at IRSA. It is currently serving SpeX spectrograph data from the 2016B semester. IRTF is a 3.0m telescope...

Jamie Bock Gives Weekly Colloquium

SPHEREx • February 8th, 2018

Last week, SPHEREx PI Jamie Bock gave the weekly colloquium at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The journey continues

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • January 11th, 2018

Again this year, more than 30 teachers, students and astronomy educators from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) are attending the winter meeting of the...

Citizen Scientists Discover Five-Planet System

Kepler • January 11th, 2018

In its search for exoplanets—planets outside of our solar system—NASA's Kepler telescope trails behind Earth, measuring the brightness of stars that may potentially host...

Zwicky Transient Facility Opens Its Eyes to the Volatile Cosmos

ZTF • November 14th, 2017

The latest workhorse camera at the Palomar Observatory can scan the majority of the northern sky every night, looking for cosmic events as they happen.

Listening for Gravitational Waves Using Pulsars

2MASS • November 13th, 2017

To explore low-frequency gravitational waves, researchers look to a natural experiment in the sky called a pulsar timing array.

Science Data, Discoveries and People: Legacy of the Herschel Space Observatory

Herschel • September 21st, 2017

The Herschel mission, a trailblazing space observatory that provided a unique view of our cosmos during its almost four years of operations, leaves a legacy of treasured data,...

Herschel's Chronicles of Galaxy Evolution

Herschel • September 20th, 2017

Delving deep into the history of our cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory scrutinised hundreds of thousands of star-forming galaxies, peering back in time to when the Universe...

The Cosmic Water Trail Uncovered by Herschel

Herschel • September 19th, 2017

During almost four years of observing the cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory traced out the presence of water. With its unprecedented sensitivity and spectral resolution at...