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NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars

January 31, 2026

New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the…

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NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

January 28, 2026

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries…

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$A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. At center-left, a larger star is circled. It has prominent diffraction spikes and an arc of white at right.$

January 21, 2026

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain…

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$Image shows a large spiral galaxy that that has a bright white center, with several lanes of reddish-brown dust and gas in between faint white arms. The galaxy takes up the center third of the frame. There are several thousand stars, some with diffraction spikes, scattered around the image. This image is labeled Hubble. A small box outlining an area at the center of the galaxy leads a pullout square at the top right. The image, labeled Webb, is dark with a white glowing oval at the center.$

January 13, 2026

The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues…

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A region of space is filled with stars and clumps of glowing orange and tan dust. A small portion of the sky at the center of the image is outlined with a white box. Lines extend from the corner of the box to the inset panel at the top right showing a magnified version of the outlined portion of the image. In the inset, there are smatterings of dim whitish-blueish stars and about seven glowing red orbs across the center in a line. Also across the center of the inset is a green glow. The background of the image is filled with stars and galaxies of various shapes and colors.

January 7, 2026

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy…

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James Webb Space Telescope image showing a broad area of space with many small galaxies, four of which are highlighted in pull-out boxes. The four highlighted galaxies are very small, appearing as points of light. Black areas of the overall image indicate where the telescope did not collect data - a vertical section in the center and a square in the lower left corner.

January 7, 2026

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of…

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December 19, 2025

For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas…

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An interactive slider image allowing the user to swipe between two versions of an image, one with annotations and one without. The image shows a spacecraft’s view of Earth (at center) and the Moon (lower left) in ultraviolet light. The image includes a circular heatmap with a bright yellow center (Earth) fading to green and blue at the edges, showing Earth’s geocorona. A smaller bright spot appears near the bottom edge (the Moon). A vertical color bar labeled "Brightness" is on the right.

December 17, 2025

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has captured its first images from space, revealing rare views of Earth and the…

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December 16, 2025

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our…

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Image composited from an image of Curiosity in a rocky Mars landscape and Webb Telescope over a star filled background

December 13, 2025

Two icons of discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s…

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NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World

December 11, 2025

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a…

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Webb image shows hundreds of galaxies of all shapes and sizes against the black background of space. Toward the center-right is a large box that zooms in to show a faint red dot with the label GRB 250314A.

December 9, 2025

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a supernova that exploded when the universe was only 730 million…

NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars

NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals

NASA’s Webb Delivers Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy

NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope

NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Reveals ‘First Light’ Images

NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation

NASA’s Webb, Curiosity Named in TIME’s Best Inventions Hall of Fame

NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World

NASA’s Webb Identifies Earliest Supernova to Date, Shows Host Galaxy