Project News

Euclid Q1 release: March 19, 2025

Euclid • News Release • December 19th, 2024

Euclid Quick Release 1 (Q1) data will go public on March 19, 2025! These include the imaging and spectroscopic data from a single visit to the Euclid Deep Fields, totaling 53 square degrees in sky coverage.

Dimensions of IPAC: SPHEREx Video

IPAC Communications and Education • Project News • December 18th, 2024

Dimensions of IPAC explores the wide spectrum of activities happening at IPAC, and here we highlight IPAC's role in the SPHEREx mission.

Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 17 Ben Montet (part 1)

IPAC Communications and Education • Project News • December 12th, 2024

Dr. Ben Montet set out to study black holes and then radio transients, and along the way he discovered exoplanets! His team gathered enormous amounts of radial velocity data on stars that eventually helped them identify signals that, after eliminating all other possibilities, meant they were...

NASA Successfully Integrates Roman Mission’s Telescope, Instruments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • December 12th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will begin joining the payload...

NASA Eyes Launching SPHEREx Sky-Mapping Mission in Early 2025

SPHEREx • News Release • December 9th, 2024

NASA and SpaceX are targeting late February 2025 for the launch of the agency’s next astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space...

ZTF counts more than 10,000 supernovae

ZTF • News Release • December 4th, 2024

In its 7 years of operations, the Zwicky Transient Facility has revolutionized the discovery and classifications of supernovae contributing more than 70% of all detected and 50 % of all recorded classified supernovae. ZTF's Bright Transient Survey is the largest transient survey in the...

Final data and undiscovered images from NASA’s NEOWISE

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • Project News • November 26th, 2024

On Nov. 1, 2024, while NASA’s NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech, was working on one further gift from the prolific mission.

ENSCI user survey

Euclid • News Release • November 21st, 2024

ENSCI is doing a survey of the US Euclid community to support the upcoming Euclid Q1 data release. Take the survey, so we can better support you!

Back in the Clean Room for Final Testing!

SPHEREx • News Release • November 19th, 2024

SPHEREx Observatory is back in the BAE cleanroom for final cleaning, testing and closeouts prior to shipment to the launch site.

NEOWISE Final Release Now Available

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • Project News • November 15th, 2024

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the NEOWISE Final Data Release.

Euclid Q1 release: March 19, 2025

Euclid • December 19th, 2024

Euclid Quick Release 1 (Q1) data will go public on March 19, 2025! These include the imaging and spectroscopic data from a single visit to the Euclid Deep Fields, totaling 53...

Dimensions of IPAC: SPHEREx Video

IPAC Communications and Education • December 18th, 2024

Dimensions of IPAC explores the wide spectrum of activities happening at IPAC, and here we highlight IPAC's role in the SPHEREx mission.

Explore Exoplanets: The Discoverers; Ep. 17 Ben Montet (part 1)

IPAC Communications and Education • December 12th, 2024

Dr. Ben Montet set out to study black holes and then radio transients, and along the way he discovered exoplanets! His team gathered enormous amounts of radial velocity data on...

NASA Successfully Integrates Roman Mission’s Telescope, Instruments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • December 12th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the...

NASA Eyes Launching SPHEREx Sky-Mapping Mission in Early 2025

SPHEREx • December 9th, 2024

NASA and SpaceX are targeting late February 2025 for the launch of the agency’s next astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the...

ZTF counts more than 10,000 supernovae

ZTF • December 4th, 2024

In its 7 years of operations, the Zwicky Transient Facility has revolutionized the discovery and classifications of supernovae contributing more than 70% of all detected...

Final data and undiscovered images from NASA’s NEOWISE

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • November 26th, 2024

On Nov. 1, 2024, while NASA’s NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech, was working on one further gift from the prolific...

ENSCI user survey

Euclid • November 21st, 2024

ENSCI is doing a survey of the US Euclid community to support the upcoming Euclid Q1 data release. Take the survey, so we can better support you!

Back in the Clean Room for Final Testing!

SPHEREx • November 19th, 2024

SPHEREx Observatory is back in the BAE cleanroom for final cleaning, testing and closeouts prior to shipment to the launch site.

NEOWISE Final Release Now Available

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • November 15th, 2024

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the NEOWISE Final Data Release.