Announcements

NASA’s NEOWISE Spacecraft Re-Enters Atmosphere, But More Discoveries Await!

Project News • November 4th, 2024

NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday night, as expected. Launched in 2009 as the WISE mission, the spacecraft has been mapping the entire sky at infrared wavelengths over and over for nearly...

NASA Successfully Integrates Coronagraph for Roman Space Telescope

Project News • October 28th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto Roman’s Instrument Carrier, a piece of infrastructure that will hold the mission’s instruments, which will be integrated onto the larger spacecraft at a later date.

Dandelion Supernova Revealed in 3-D

Project News • October 24th, 2024

New observations probe a sphere of filaments around a dead star.

NASA Funds Open-Source Software Underpinning Scientific Innovation

IPAC News • October 24th, 2024

NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for the benefit of all. IPAC Software Developer Brigitta Sipőcz led a proposal titled "Enhancement of Infrastructure and...

Latest news from IRSA: e-newsletter issue 2024.5

Project News • October 14th, 2024

The latest e-newsletter from IRSA is available! Highlights include the Zwicky Transient Facility Data Release 22, COSMOS UltraVista DR 6 images, unWISE Data in Amazon Open Data Repository and ...IPAC & IRSA job opportunities.

NASA Establishes New Class of Astrophysics Missions, Selects Studies

Project News • October 9th, 2024

Two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space were selected by NASA for additional review. Each proposal team will receive $5 million to conduct a 12-month mission concept study. After detailed evaluation of those studies, NASA expects to select one...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s 'Exoskeleton' Whirls Through Major Test

Project News • October 8th, 2024

A major component of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just took a spin on the centrifuge at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Called the Outer Barrel Assembly, this piece of the observatory is designed to keep the telescope at a stable temperature and shield it...

NASA Completes Spacecraft to Transport, Support Roman Space Telescope

Project News • September 17th, 2024

The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing.

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Spacecraft Completes Environmental Testing

Project News • September 16th, 2024

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft recently completed the shaking, chilling, baking, and other testing needed to ensure it can survive launch and the harsh conditions of space. Now that environmental testing is done, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, is putting...

Explore Exoplanets - The Discoverers (Episode 16)

Project News • September 12th, 2024

Did the movie Avatar predict the discovery of the holy grail of exoplanets: a nearby Earth-like rocky planet orbiting a Sun-like star? Drs. Jessie Christiansen and Ashley Chontos continue their conversation about Ashley's favorite fictional planet—and Jessie reveals whether she's found Pandora's...