Project News

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

Ultraviolet Explorer • 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...

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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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...

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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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...

Observers measure how Andromeda’s central black hole is fed

Spitzer • January 15th, 2024

A team of scientists led by the Observatory of Munich University and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have obtained direct visualization of the process of feeding the...

The aftermath of a supernova seen for the first time

ZTF • January 10th, 2024

A team of astronomers from the ZTF partnership used ZTF and a suite of other telescopes available to the ZTF partners to discover and analyze supernova SN2022jli. While...

High School Teachers and Students Continue Doing Real Astronomy Research

NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program • 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...

ENSCI at AAS #243

Euclid • January 2nd, 2024

Euclid will be represented at the 243th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)! ENSCI staff will be present to answer questions about Euclid. Mark your calendars for...

A Community for Astronomy Visualization

IPAC Communications and Education • 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...

Meet the Infrared Telescopes That Paved the Way for NASA’s Webb

Infrared Astronomical Satellite • December 22nd, 2023

The Webb telescope has opened a new window onto the universe, but it builds on missions going back 40 years, including Spitzer and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.