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Spacecraft components configured for testing rest on a table.

January 28, 2026

Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a…

Six Hubble images of distorted galaxies are organized in a two-row mosaic. From left to right, the top row of galaxies appears as follows: The left panel has a galaxy that resembles the number nine tilted on its side to the left and has red-orange regions scattered with blue knots. The center square shows an edge-on spiral galaxy appearing like a white thin bar extending from 8 ou2019clock to 2 ou2019clock. It has a bright, compact core and a small background spiral galaxy just below the core. The right panel shows two merging galaxies forming a convoluted shape that extends from 8 ou2019clock to 2 ou2019clock. The bottom row of galaxies appears as follows: Left square contains a face-on spiral with faint, broad arcs of material to its left and right. The center panel has a hazy white, face-on spiral with a lumpy vertical line to its right that appears to curve around its core. The right panel shows an orange elliptical galaxy with a lumpy blueish galaxy curving around it to the right.

January 27, 2026

A team of astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived…

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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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January 19, 2026

Newly developing stars shrouded in thick dust get their first baby pictures in these images from NASA’s Hubble…

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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 14, 2026

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

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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 6, 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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An illustration of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, its companion star, and a dusty wake. The disk of a red-orange star is in the center. It is surrounded by a diffuse orange cloud representing its extended atmosphere. Below it about one stellar diameter away is a yellow dot representing a smaller companion star. From the companion, a dark red cloud wraps around in a counterclockwise direction. It begins very narrow and expands as it gets further from the companion, finally disappearing at the outer edge of the diffuse orange cloud around 10 ou2019clock. The words u201cartistu2019s conceptu201d are at lower right.

January 6, 2026

Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently…

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A region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.

January 5, 2026

A team using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless,…

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A grainy orange oval ring tilts slightly from upper right to lower left.

December 19, 2025

Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a…

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NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World

December 12, 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…

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Black Hole Eats Star: NASA Missions Discover Record-Setting Blast

December 9, 2025

Astronomers have been poring over a flood of data from NASA satellites and other facilities as they try…

NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware

AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive

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

Hubble Snaps Stellar Baby Pictures

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

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

NASA Hubble Helps Detect ‘Wake’ of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object

NASA’s Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time

NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World

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

Black Hole Eats Star: NASA Missions Discover Record-Setting Blast