The Universe

Ames Research Center
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Pioneers
CubeSats
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
Infrared Light
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kepler / K2
SmallSats Program
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Universe
Visible / Optical Light
Editor’s Note, Jan. 11, 2026: NASA’s Pandora and the NASA-sponsored BlackCAT and SPARCS missions lifted off at 8:44 a.m. EST (5:44 a.m. PST) Sunday, Jan. 11. A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, and their stars. Along […]
Posted January 9, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
General
Marshall Space Flight Center
Supernova Remnants
The Universe
A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was first spotted in the night sky in 1604. Today, astronomers know that a white dwarf star exploded when […]
Posted January 6, 2026
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample of galaxies that have a previously unseen combination of features.
Posted January 6, 2026
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Irregular Galaxies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Origin & Evolution of the Universe
Science & Research
The Universe
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. The finding of metallic iron dust and silicon carbide (SiC) produced by aging stars, along with tiny clumps of carbon-based molecules, shows that even […]
Posted January 6, 2026
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Binary Stars
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Stars
The Universe
Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, on the gas around Betelgeuse.
Posted January 5, 2026
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster Dec. 31, 2020.
Posted December 30, 2025
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
The Universe
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star.
Posted December 23, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Origin & Evolution of the Universe
The Search for Life
The Universe
Launched in March, NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors. While not visible to the human eye, these 102 infrared wavelengths of light are prevalent in the cosmos, and observing the entire sky this way enables scientists to answer big questions, including how a dramatic […]
Posted December 18, 2025
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Astrophysics
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Projects
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
The Universe
X-ray Astronomy
Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has been unresolved since the earliest days of X-ray astronomy.
Posted December 16, 2025
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Stars
The Universe
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Completing the Roman observatory brings us to a defining moment for the […]
Posted December 4, 2025
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