Project News

SPHEREx Quick Release Data Products Available at IRSA

Infrared Science Archive • July 8th, 2025

SPHEREx data are now available at IRSA!

How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World

SPHEREx • July 2nd, 2025

NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now settled into low-Earth orbit, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer...

NASA Extends Efforts to Recontact Lunar Trailblazer Until Early July

Lunar Trailblazer • June 30th, 2025

NASA has extended recovery efforts of its Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft from mid-June to early July. Updated modeling of the spacecraft’s trajectory by the mission team indicates...

Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Vera C. Rubin Observatory • June 26th, 2025

From distant stars and galaxies to asteroids whizzing through the Solar System, this next-generation facility unveils its first imagery and brings the night sky to life like...

Building SPHEREx in a Caltech Basement

SPHEREx • June 26th, 2025

How a NASA space telescope came together in a university lab

COSMOS-Web Unveils Largest Look Ever Into the Deep Universe

COSMOS-Web • June 18th, 2025

COSMOS-Web provides the largest view deep into the universe ever, and now all of its data are available publicly in an easily searchable format.

Exoplanet discovery database, ExoFOP, reaches 1 million files and counting

Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program • June 7th, 2025

Discovering an exoplanet doesn’t mean having one, definitive eureka moment. Instead, it requires multiple observations, sometimes from multiple observatories, and the scientific...

Roman Coronagraph Instrument Call for White Papers

Roman • June 2nd, 2025

The Community Participation Program (CPP) is sponsoring a call for White Papers to collect concepts for technology demonstration and scientific exploration observations with the...

New NASA 3D Visualization Explores the Carina Nebula Complex

IPAC Communications and Education • May 7th, 2025

The Carina Nebula Complex is a vast region of star formation featured in numerous spectacular images including the giant Carina Nebula mosaic from the Hubble Space Telescope...

Key Portion of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Clears Thermal Vacuum Test

Roman • May 7th, 2025

One half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment.