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Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies
Gamma Rays
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Goddard Space Flight Center
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Swift Boost Mission
The Universe
Wallops Flight Facility
A commercial mission to boost NASA’s Swift observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the agency and industry vendor gained valuable experience that will benefit future in-space servicing programs.
Posted September 28, 2026
Black Holes
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Stars
The Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30. While you wait to watch the launch, brush up on some key facts about this wide-view mission.
Posted August 27, 2026
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Science & Research
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had ever before been seen so far outside of a galaxy’s core. “We were looking for these star-shredding events as a way […]
Posted July 27, 2026
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Goddard Space Flight Center
Science & Research
Stars
The Universe
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. How do black holes at the center of galaxies form and grow over time? To answer this question, scientists need to detect and study supermassive black holes at great distances, which existed much earlier in the universe’s history. New research suggests NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which […]
Posted July 14, 2026
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Black Holes
Globular Clusters
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Stars
Astronomers using archival data from Hubble and supportive observations from Webb have located their first stellar-mass black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri.
Posted July 13, 2026
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Black Holes
Exoplanets
Goddard Space Flight Center
Stars
Stellar-mass Black Holes
The Universe
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
Black Holes
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Gravitational Lensing
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
The Universe
Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their fuel and collapse to form black holes, which can gobble up surrounding material and merge over time to form more massive entities. But it’s hard […]
Posted May 27, 2026
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have found in the early universe in recent years. A “X-ray dot” found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory could explain what the hundreds or potentially thousands of these objects are. A paper describing the […]
Posted April 28, 2026
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies
Galaxy Mergers
Goddard Space Flight Center
Gravitational Waves
LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a second early version of a key element of the upcoming LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission.
Posted January 27, 2026
Active Galaxies
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Quasars
Science & Research
The Universe
The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to influence its evolution.
Posted January 13, 2026
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