Announcements

IPAC Scientists Aid in Unveiling First Known System of 7 Earth-size Planets with Spitzer

IPAC News • February 22nd, 2017

IPAC scientists Sean Carey and Jim Ingalls were part of an international team of astronomers who discovered the first known system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a single star. The finding was made possible with over 21 days of near-continuous Spitzer Space Telescope observations of...

How Far Away is That Galaxy? Vast Catalog Has Answers

Project News • January 5th, 2017

A team of researchers has compiled a special catalog to help astronomers figure out the true distances to tens of thousands of galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. The catalog, called NED-D, is a critical resource, not only for studying these galaxies, but also for determining the distances to...

Discovering Our Universe From The Classroom: NASA/IPAC Teacher Research Program

Project News • January 5th, 2017

High school teachers and students doing real astronomy research? Absolutely! Once again, more than 50 teachers, students and astronomy educators from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) will be attending the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running...

NASA's NEOWISE Mission Spies One Comet, Maybe Two

Project News • December 29th, 2016

NASA's NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet. Another--definitely a comet--might be seen with binoculars through next week.

Are planets like those in 'Star Wars: Rogue One' really out there? NASA plans to find out

Project News • December 15th, 2016

In the "Star Wars" universe, ice, ocean and desert planets burst from the darkness as your ship drops out of light speed. But these worlds might be more than just science fiction.

NEOWISE 2016 Data Release

Project News • March 23rd, 2016

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center announce the NEOWISE 2016 Data Release.

NASA's New Great Observatory Takes Shape with the Support of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center

Project News • March 17th, 2016

Teams of scientists and engineers are now honing the concept for WFIRST as a fast, deep, mapping engine at near-infrared wavelengths for addressing fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets and numerous other topics in astrophysics.

Astronomers Discover Colossal 'Super Spiral' Galaxies

Project News • March 17th, 2016

A new class of behemoth spiral galaxies has been uncovered using NASA archival data.

Caltech Asteroid Hunter Gives TED Talk

Project News • February 19th, 2016

Caltech staff scientist Carrie Nugent, who discovers and characterizes asteroids utilizing data from the NASA NEOWISE program, presented her research as one of the selected speakers at the 2016 TED Conference this week in Vancouver, British Columbia.

NASA Introduces New, Wider Set of Eyes on the Universe

Project News • February 18th, 2016

After years of preparatory studies, NASA is formally starting an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe -- the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).