Project News

NASA Approves Development of Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission

Roman • March 2nd, 2020

NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project has passed a critical programmatic and technical milestone, giving the mission the official green light to begin...

SPHEREx celebrates one-year anniversary of selection

SPHEREx • February 13th, 2020

Our birthday! The SPHEREx team celebrated the one-year anniversary of selection with three cakes decorated in honor of the three SPHEREx science themes. They were lovingly baked...

First Asteroid Found Inside Orbit of Venus

ZTF • January 15th, 2020

A rare asteroid orbiting snugly within the inner confines of our solar system has been discovered by Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, a survey camera based at...

First Asteroid Found Inside Orbit of Venus

ZTF • January 15th, 2020

A rare asteroid orbiting snugly within the inner confines of our solar system has been discovered by Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, a survey camera based at...

Probing the Hubble Constant with NASA's WFIRST

Roman • January 10th, 2020

Discrepancies in the Hubble constant, which describes how fast the universe is expanding, have vexed astronomers for years. Values predicted from observations of the early...

Simulated Image Demonstrates the Power of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope

Roman • January 7th, 2020

Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a strategic space-invader-shaped array a million miles from Earth, scanning the universe at warp speed.

High school teachers and students doing real astronomy research? Absolutely!

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • January 7th, 2020

Once again, nearly 30 teachers, students and astronomy educators from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) will be attending the winter meeting of the...

First national US observatory to be named after a woman

Vera C. Rubin Observatory • January 6th, 2020

It was announced today that the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will conduct a vast astronomical survey for unprecedented discovery of the deep and...

Celebrating 10 Years of the WISE Spacecraft

• December 19th, 2019

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft's launch, the mission team has gathered their top 10 images and graphics based on WISE and NEOWISE data.

Public Data Release 2

ZTF • December 11th, 2019

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