Announcements

Discovering 3 Worlds All at Once!

Project News • March 19th, 2024

What's better than discovering an exoplanet? How about discovering THREE exoplanets...all at once! Early-career researcher Dr. Emily Gilbert talks about the exoplanet bonanza of the TOI-700 system that made headline news around the world in 2020. Emily also reveals her favorite fictional planet...

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

Project News • March 12th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper into this region than any other survey, mapping more of our galaxy’s stars than all previous observations combined.

NED February 2024 Release

Project News • February 29th, 2024

NED announces the February 2024 release. Highlights include updates on holdings, references and object pointers, new objects and cross-IDs, redshifts and more!

IPAC Names Tracy Chen the New Task Lead of Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Science Data System

IPAC News • February 15th, 2024

Dr. Tracy Chen, a member of IPAC since 2009, was appointed the new Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Science Data System Lead, starting on January 2nd, 2024.

New NASA Mission will Study Ultraviolet Sky, Stars, Stellar Explosions

Project News • February 13th, 2024

As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies and stars evolve. The space telescope, called UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer), is targeted to launch in 2030 as NASA’s next...

NASA’s Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe

Project News • February 7th, 2024

Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new way using NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Once it launches by May 2027, astronomers will mine Roman’s wide...

NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test

Project News • January 31st, 2024

A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.

NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

Project News • January 18th, 2024

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before. After NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, by May 2027, researchers will use its images to explore...

High School Teachers and Students Continue Doing Real Astronomy Research

Project News • January 10th, 2024

At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 7 through January 11 in New Orleans, LA, 18 astronomy educators and 21 of their students from the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) are attending. For over a decade, NITARP has partnered small...

A Community for Astronomy Visualization

Project News • January 1st, 2024

Science visualization is a key component of astronomy communications for both the research and outreach communities. Recently, several exciting steps have been taken to better connect practitioners of “AstroViz” (a nickname for the discipline), spanning researchers, educators, developers, and...