Goddard Space Flight Center

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Black Holes

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

Stars

Stellar-mass Black Holes

The Universe

Euclid View of Milky Way Heart Previews Core Survey by NASA’s Roman

A new look at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy by Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with NASA contributions, overlaps with a region scientists will observe with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching later this summer. This sneak peek gives astronomers a major jumpstart on a core Roman survey, helping scientists […]

Posted June 24, 2026

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Origin & Evolution of the Universe

The Universe

Hubble Details Early Galaxy Transforming Neighborhood

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found something they never expected — ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed just 1.4 billion years after the big bang.

Posted June 23, 2026

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy

Located 12 million light-years away and undergoing rapid star formation, edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is a scientifically unique sight to behold, and now NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed previously unseen details.

Posted June 23, 2026

Astrophysics

Comets

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

Small Bodies of the Solar System

The Solar System

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Finds Clues to Ancient, Distant Origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS

As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began moving away from the Sun in December 2025, astronomers took the opportunity to turn NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope in its direction and capture detailed measurements of its chemical components. The comet was freshly warmed from its closest pass by the Sun, and its ancient ice had been converted […]

Posted June 22, 2026

Asteroids

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lucy

Missions

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Directorates

Planetary Science

Planetary Science Division

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System

Trojan Asteroids

NASA’s Lucy Reveals Wobbling, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid

Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in its relatively short history.

Posted June 18, 2026

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Galaxy clusters

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

The Universe

Hubble Glimpses Merging Galaxy Clusters

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster, called CL0016+1609 or MACS J0018.5+1626, that is very bright at X-ray wavelengths and is one of the most extensively studied clusters at X-ray and radio wavelengths. The X-ray observations of this cluster revealed that it is two clusters merging along our line of sight.

Posted June 18, 2026

Astrophysics

Cosmic Rays

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Gamma Rays

Goddard Space Flight Center

Infrared Light

Nebulae

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Stars

Supernova Remnants

Supernovae

The Universe

Ultraviolet Light

X-ray Astronomy

NASA’s Fermi Mission Uncovers Possible Sibling Supernova Remnants

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star’s detonation sent its binary companion hurtling through space, and then, after traveling for thousands of years, the surviving star blew up too.

Posted June 17, 2026

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Exoplanets

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted

That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star.

Posted June 17, 2026

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

Star Clusters

Stars

The Milky Way

NASA Webb, Hubble Reveal History of Relic of Milky Way’s Formation

Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have definitively shown that Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster as it was once classified, offering new insight into how galaxies like our own form and evolve over time. A globular star cluster typically has only […]

Posted June 16, 2026

Air Quality

Earth

Earth's Atmosphere

Goddard Space Flight Center

Human Dimensions

Wildfires

NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll

Over the last decade, wildfires have worsened ground-level ozone pollution across much of the contiguous United States, creating unhealthy air far from active flames.

Posted June 4, 2026