Project News

ZTF catches an interstellar visitor

ZTF • News Release • July 11th, 2025

ENSCI User Panel 2025 report released

Euclid • News Release • July 10th, 2025

ENSCI User panel just released its 2025 report, in which they emphasized ENSCI's critical role in enabling US-based Euclid science investigations, and gave high marks for ENSCI work in the past year.

SPHEREx Quick Release Data Products Available at IRSA

Infrared Science Archive • Project News • 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 • News Release • 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 for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) has begun delivering its sky survey data to...

NASA Extends Efforts to Recontact Lunar Trailblazer Until Early July

Lunar Trailblazer • Project News • 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 lighting conditions will continue to be favorable and may provide enough sunlight for the spacecraft’s solar panels to...

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

Vera C. Rubin Observatory • Project News • 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 never before.

Building SPHEREx in a Caltech Basement

SPHEREx • News Release • 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 • Project News • 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 • Project News • 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 community coming together in agreement to finally confirm its existence.

Roman Coronagraph Instrument Call for White Papers

Roman • News • 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 Coronagraph, with a due date of August 7th.