Project News

NASA selects first Euclid general investigators

Euclid • February 19th, 2025

NASA's Euclid General Investigator Program (EGIP) funds basic research focused on public data from the Euclid mission. For EGIP 2024, 14 proposals have been selected for...

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Missions Studying Cosmic Origins, Sun

SPHEREx • February 18th, 2025

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), the...

How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Will Make a Looping Voyage to the Moon

Lunar Trailblazer • February 13th, 2025

Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit.

SPHEREx Nears Launch (LIVE Q+A)

SPHEREx • February 13th, 2025

We are less than 15 days away from launching SPHEREx, a mission that will observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies in infrared light, a range of wavelengths not...

NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Will Seek Life’s Ingredients

SPHEREx • February 13th, 2025

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the galaxy and take stock.

NASA Successfully Joins Sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘Exoskeleton’

Roman • February 12th, 2025

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light...

NASA Scientists Spot Candidate for Speediest Exoplanet System

Roman • February 10th, 2025

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving...

Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring in Our Cosmic Backyard

Euclid • February 10th, 2025

The phenomenon appears to encircle the center of a well-studied elliptical galaxy called NGC 6505, around 590 million light-years from Earth.

SPHEREx L-30 News Briefing

SPHEREx • January 31st, 2025

NASA previews SPHEREx, space telescope mission to explore universe’s origins.

SPHEREx Begins Integration with PUNCH

SPHEREx • January 29th, 2025

The SPHEREx Observatory has completed standalone operations in the West High Bay at Astrotech Space Operations Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The...