Project News

Euclid VIS Instrument

Euclid • September 7th, 2023

Euclid's VIS instrument is one of the two instruments on Euclid, required for acquiring weak lensing data. It is a large format imager, with 609 million pixels covering 0.57...

NASA Begins Integrating ‘Nervous System’ for Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • August 24th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory...

Euclid Consortium

Euclid • August 24th, 2023

The Euclid Consortium consists of ~2500 scientists and engineers across more than 15 countries. The Euclid Consortium website provides a lot of useful information.

Ariel Passes Major Milestone

Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey • August 23rd, 2023

Ariel, the European Space Agency’s next-generation mission to observe the chemical make-up of distant extrasolar planets, has passed a major milestone after successfully...

SPHEREx put to the test in KASI thermal vacuum chamber

SPHEREx • August 22nd, 2023

In this timelapse movie, scientists and engineers can be seen preparing NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope for tests inside a vacuum chamber at Caltech that simulates the...

What's in Euclid's First Images

Euclid • August 17th, 2023

Euclid has successfully completed its commissioning period, during which all functions of the spacecraft and instrumentation were checked.

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Payload for Moon Water Hunt

Lunar Trailblazer • August 16th, 2023

The spacecraft’s Lunar Thermal Mapper science instrument will work with an imaging spectrometer to help researchers understand the nature of water on the Moon’s surface.

The Universe in a box: preparing for Euclid’s survey

Euclid • August 10th, 2023

ESA’s Euclid mission will create a 3D-map of the Universe that scientists will use to measure the properties of the dark Universe. The Euclid Flagship Simulation tells us what...

System Level Testing of the SPHEREx Instrument Completed Successfully

SPHEREx • August 3rd, 2023

The SPHEREx team completed the first successful testing of the SPHEREx flight instrument – detector assemblies, telescope, and thermal control system.

New Study Reveals NASA’s Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • July 19th, 2023

New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that...