Project News

A White Dwarf Living on the Edge

ZTF • June 30th, 2021

Astronomers have discovered the smallest and most massive white dwarf ever seen. The smoldering cinder, which formed when two less massive white dwarfs merged, is about...

Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Gets Two-Year Mission Extension

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • June 30th, 2021

For two more years, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) will continue its hunt for asteroids and comets – including objects that could pose a...

Are We Missing Other Earths?

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • June 29th, 2021

Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half of the Earth-sized planets around other stars. New findings from a team that includes Elise Furlan and David Ciardi at...

Cosmic dawn occurred 250 to 350 million years after Big Bang

Spitzer • June 25th, 2021

Cosmic dawn, when stars formed for the first time, occurred 250 million to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, according to a new study led by researchers at...

Public Release of Reduced Solar Data Products from the NEID Spectrograph

NN-explore Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler spectroscopy • June 25th, 2021

The NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research (NN-EXPLORE) program announces the public release of reduced solar data products from the NEID spectrograph built by the...

NASA Approves Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope to Continue Development

Near-Earth Object Surveyor • June 14th, 2021

NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful mission review, authorizing...

First official release of Data Reduction Pipeline for the Keck Cosmic Web Imager

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • June 8th, 2021

The W. M. Keck Observatory and the KCWI team at Caltech are proud to announce the first official release of the Data Reduction Pipeline (DRP) for the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI).

NASA’s Roman Mission to Probe Cosmic Secrets Using Exploding Stars

Roman • May 26th, 2021

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space.

Giant Planets Found in the Stellar Suburbs

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • May 26th, 2021

In the neighborhood that makes up our solar system, the giant planets—Jupiter and Saturn—reside in the chilly outer regions, while smaller planets tend to orbit closer to the...

Looking for Origins

Origins Space Telescope • May 13th, 2021

A proposed far-infrared telescope with key IPAC involvement and expertise is described in the leading space systems journal JATIS, including 20 technical articles on the design...