Project News

Joint Survey Processing Splinter Session

Joint Survey Processing • January 5th, 2022

Despite the cancellation of the AAS, on Tue Jan 11th between 1-4pm Pacific (4-7pm Eastern), we plan to hold the planned splinter on Joint Survey Processing (JSP) on Zoom. All...

Discovery Alert: 172 Possible Planets? A New Roadmap to Distant Worlds

NASA Exoplanet Archive • November 30th, 2021

A new catalog of planets around other stars includes hundreds of new discoveries, and could offer insight into planet formation and variety.

2022 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Hybrid Workshop - Exoplanet Science in the Gaia Era

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • November 12th, 2021

Join us for the 22nd Sagan Summer Workshop! The 2022 Sagan Summer Workshop will focus on the topic of exoplanet science in the Gaia era.

NASA’s Roman Mission Will Help Empower a New Era of Cosmological Discovery

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • November 9th, 2021

A team of scientists has forecast the scientific impact of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s High Latitude Wide Area Survey on critical questions in cosmology.

Public Data Release 8

ZTF • November 3rd, 2021

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the 8th ZTF Public Data Release. ZTF is an optical time-domain survey covering...

A ‘Monster’ Star-Forming Region Spied by NASA’s Spitzer

Spitzer • October 25th, 2021

Just like clouds on Earth, clouds of gas and dust in space can sometimes resemble familiar objects, or even popular movie creatures.

NEID Spectrometer Lights Up Path to Exoplanet Exploration

NN-explore Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler spectroscopy • October 20th, 2021

A new NASA instrument will look for planets by detecting subtle wobbles from their parent stars. To prepare, it will study the Sun.

New Python API for KOA

Keck Observatory Archive • October 14th, 2021

KOA has released a Python API that supports queries for public and protected raw science and calibration data for all active and retired instruments at the W. M. Keck Observatory.

Live Public talk by SPHEREx team member Phil Korngut on The Warm Glow of Our Cool Universe.

SPHEREx • October 14th, 2021

Live public talk on the SPHEREx and Euclid missions by Phil Korngut, SPHEREx Instrument Scientist, and Dida Markovic, Euclid mission team member.

NASA Confirms Roman Mission's Flight Design in Milestone Review

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • September 29th, 2021

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its critical design review, signaling that all design and developmental engineering work is now complete.