Project News

Building SPHEREx in a Caltech Basement

SPHEREx • June 26th, 2025

How a NASA space telescope came together in a university lab

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...

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.

NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Begins Capturing Entire Sky

SPHEREx • May 1st, 2025

After weeks of preparation, the space observatory has begun its science mission, taking about 3,600 unique images per day to create a map of the cosmos like no other.

NASA Focuses Lunar Trailblazer Recontact Efforts Through Mid-June

Lunar Trailblazer • April 30th, 2025

As NASA continues work to reestablish command of its Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft, the mission team’s modeling indicates that the lighting conditions from May through mid-June...

NASA’s Newest Space Telescope Recognized at New York Stock Exchange

SPHEREx • April 24th, 2025

The SPHEREx astrophysics observatory will help answer big questions about the origins of our universe, of galaxies, and the ingredients for life in our galaxy.