Skip to main content

Home

Introduction

Our Mission

Collage of artist illustrations of STScI missions

We Are Multi-Mission

We help humanity explore the universe with advanced space telescopes and ever-growing data archives.

Learn More

Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, a NIRCam image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope

We Further Scientific Research

We envision, define, and operate missions that offer cutting-edge research opportunities for the astronomical community.

Learn More

A group of students looking at the sky through eclipse glasses

We Inspire Through Outreach

We share scientific knowledge of the universe in ways that inspire, excite, challenge, and educate.

Learn More

Recent News

Institute Announcements

Current

Press Releases

Events

  • JWebbinar 37 - Planning Solar System Observations with JWST

    JWebbinar 37 - Planning Solar System Observations with JWST
    17 Sep 2024

    JWST is capable of observing the majority of solar system objects found beyond the Earth's orbit, such as asteroids, giant planets and their satellites, comets, and trans-Neptunian...

  • Fall Colloquium: Presentations from Incoming STScI Postdocs

    Fall Colloquium: Presentations from Incoming STScI Postdocs
    18 Sep 2024

    Presentations featuring Paul Bennet, Farhan Hasan, Jegug Ih, Ryan Richards Vaught, and Mans Holmberg.

  • White Dwarf Supernovae

    White Dwarf Supernovae
    25 Sep 2024

    Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) play a starring role in our view of the Universe.  Observations of SN Ia led to two cosmological surprises: the discovery of the accelerating Universe...

  • Webb Office Hours

    Promotional image for Webb Office Hours
    26 Sep 2024

    The JWST User Community is invited to call into Webb Office Hours to ask questions and directly interact with a team of STScI JWST experts via WebEx. We welcome questions about the...

  • Cosmic Acceleration in the Roman Era

    Cosmic Acceleration in the Roman Era
    2 Oct 2024

    Abstract is forthcoming. Speaker: David Weinberg (The Ohio State University)

  • Planets, Life, and the Universe Lecture

    Planets, Life, and the Universe Lecture
    4 Oct 2024

    Abstract is forthcoming Speaker: Emily Martin (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)

About the Institute

STScI's Astronomical Imagery Slideshow

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
NGC 3627
A dying star shrouded by a blanket of hailstones forms the Bug Nebula (NGC 6302).
Small Magellanic Cloud
Stephan's Quintet
Faint glow within galaxy clusters
Supernova Remnant 0509-67.5
Horsehead Nebula (Infrared)
Heart of the Tarantula Nebula
Westerlund 2