Project News

NASA Approves Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope to Continue Development

Near-Earth Object Surveyor • June 14th, 2021

NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful mission review, authorizing...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision ‘Eyes’

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • June 9th, 2021

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. When Roman launches in the mid-2020s, these devices will...

First official release of Data Reduction Pipeline for the Keck Cosmic Web Imager

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • June 8th, 2021

The W. M. Keck Observatory and the KCWI team at Caltech are proud to announce the first official release of the Data Reduction Pipeline (DRP) for the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI).

NASA’s Roman Mission to Probe Cosmic Secrets Using Exploding Stars

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • May 26th, 2021

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space.

Giant Planets Found in the Stellar Suburbs

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • May 26th, 2021

In the neighborhood that makes up our solar system, the giant planets—Jupiter and Saturn—reside in the chilly outer regions, while smaller planets tend to orbit closer to the...

Looking for Origins

Origins Space Telescope • May 13th, 2021

A proposed far-infrared telescope with key IPAC involvement and expertise is described in the leading space systems journal JATIS, including 20 technical articles on the design...

Machine learning helps astronomers classify dying stars

ZTF • April 28th, 2021

Astronomers from the Zwicky Transient Facility team announce the first fully automated classification of Type Ia supernova.

Machine learning helps astronomers classify dying stars

ZTF • April 28th, 2021

Astronomers from the Zwicky Transient Facility team announce the first fully automated classification of Type Ia supernova.

Astronomers Release New All-Sky Map of Milky Way's Outer Reaches

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • April 21st, 2021

The highlight of the new chart is a wake of stars, stirred up by a small galaxy set to collide with the Milky Way. The map could also offer a new test of dark matter theories.

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Uncover Lonesome Black Holes

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • April 13th, 2021

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide an unprecedented window into the infrared universe when it launches in the mid-2020s.