Science & Data Center for
Astrophysics & Planetary Sciences

There's a brand new version of IRSA Viewer, and time series tool, DCE, catalog search tool, data discovery (that box on the IRSA front page), IRTF, and Atlas.

A technology demo on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help increase the variety of distant planets scientists can directly image.

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce ZTF Public Data Release 21.

In images from NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope, streams of dust thousands of light-years long flow toward the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Andromeda galaxy. It turns out these streams can help explain how black holes billions of times the mass of our Sun satiate their big appetites but remain "quiet" eaters.

ESA has begun providing public information on the status of the Euclid mission, updated on a daily basis. 

Black holes - what are they really? Learn this and more with “Astro-Investigates,” a new video series that explores and explains big astrophysics topics with the help of NASA scientists. Caltech/IPAC's Keith Miller (Editor/Director/Co-Producer) and Robert Hurt (Science Visualizations/Co-Producer) are working with NASA/JPL to create this new and exciting series!

Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the Sun's mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could find a class of "featherweight" black holes that has so far eluded detection.

Direct imaging and spectroscopy has become a standard tool for studying the atmospheres and orbits of young, self-luminous giant planets in wide orbits. This workshop will cover the scientific questions in exoplanets motivating direct imaging. Sessions will explore basic optical principles of high-contrast imaging and the fundamentals of coronagraph and wavefront sensing technologies and high-contrast instrument design.

The SPHEREx observatory is now fully assembled and ready to enter its environmental test campaign.

The Euclid mission team was awarded this year’s Space Achievement Award by the Space Foundation, a non-profit organization.

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and IPAC at the California Institute of Technology announce the eleventh ZTF Public Data Release.

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has been tucked inside a custom-built chamber on and off for the past two months undergoing tests to prepare it for its two-year mission in space. SPHEREx, which stands for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, is set to launch into orbit around Earth no later than April 2025.