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

    January 13, 2026Release ID: 2026-105 Missions: Webb

    A specialized technique may change what scientists thought about how much material black holes eject.

    An artist’s illustration showing the center of the Circinus galaxy, including its supermassive black hole, dusty torus, and superheated jets of matter. The center of supermassive black hole, slightly left of center, is bright white. Two slim, bright green jets of matter shoot out from the black hole at 1 o’clock and 7 o’clock, and hit the edges of the frame. A donut-shaped, orangish-pinkish ring of dust and gas, called a torus, surrounds the black hole. The disk is clumpy closer to the center and more diffuse at the edges. The torus, tilted at the same angle as the jets, is brighter and whiter closer to the black hole than at the edges. The words Artist’s Concept is in the lower right corner.

  2. 2026 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize Awarded to STScI Astronomer Kailash Sahu

    January 08, 2026Release ID: 2026-402 Missions: STScI

    The award recognizes an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics.

    A man with salt-and-pepper hair and a mustache, wearing a button-up shirt, standing in front of a photo of a nebula speckled with stars.

  3. Scientists Identify 'Astronomy’s Platypus' with NASA’s Webb Telescope

    January 06, 2026Release ID: 2026-101 Missions: Webb

    A small sample of galaxies discovered in Webb’s archive exhibit a previously unseen combination of features that hint at a possible new population of galaxies.

    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.

  4. NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog's Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

    January 06, 2026Release ID: 2026-102 Missions: Webb

    Planet-building material found even in environments lacking the needed ingredients

    A region of space is filled with stars and clumps of glowing orange and tan dust. A small portion of the sky at the center of the image is outlined with a white box. Lines extend from the corner of the box to the inset panel at the top right showing a magnified version of the outlined portion of the image. In the inset, there are smatterings of dim whitish-blueish stars and about seven glowing red orbs across the center in a line. Also across the center of the inset is a green glow. The background of the image is filled with stars and galaxies of various shapes and colors.

  5. NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

    January 05, 2026Release ID: 2026-002 Missions: Hubble

    After nearly a decade of tracking the giant star’s hidden companion, scientists have confirmed its existence and the influence it exerts.

    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 o’clock. The words “artist’s concept” are at lower right.

  6. NASA's Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object

    January 05, 2026Release ID: 2026-001 Missions: Hubble

    Failed galaxy offers window into ‘dark universe’

    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.

  7. NASA's Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets

    December 23, 2025Release ID: 2025-025 Missions: Hubble

    Vast dust and gas disk offers insight into the birth of star systems.

    Near the center is an object that resembles an edge-on view of a hamburger. There is a diagonal dark strip (the meat patty) of dust, running from 1 o'clock to 7 o'clock, that obscures a central star. Curving away from either side of the dark strip are glowing white clouds (the buns) where dust is reflecting starlight. Bright blue finger-like wisps of material extend far above and below the dark center plane. A few dozen stars, some with four diffraction spikes, are scattered on the black background of space.

  8. NASA's Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time

    December 18, 2025Release ID: 2025-008 Missions: Hubble

    The spectacular, resulting dust cloud mimics the appearance of a planet.

    Image labeled Fomalhaut system, Hubble Space Telescope. A grainy orange oval ring tilts slightly from upper right to lower left. At two o'clock, a white box outlines the ring's edge and white lines extend to a larger pullout at lower right. Two spots are labeled cs1 2013 and cs2 2023. Inside the ring is a black circle with a white star symbol in the middle.

  9. NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation

    December 16, 2025Release ID: 2025-134 Missions: Webb

    Bizarre, lemon-shaped world has an atmosphere unlike any ever seen before.

    Illustration labeled “artist’s concept” at right bottom corner. At left bottom corner, a partially illuminated, lemon-shaped exoplanet appears against a black background. This planet is most brightly illuminated at its elongated tip on its right side. On the left side, which is wider, the planet trails off into the darkness of the background. The planet is colored in varying, mottled shades of red, light pink, and fuchsia. Most of the pink occurs closest to the tip, while most of the fuchsia is at the top and bottom edges. At right top corner, a white beam emanates diagonally, oriented from 10 o’clock to 4 o’clock, from either side of a small, glowing, white star.

  10. NASA's Roman Telescope Will Observe Thousands of Newfound Cosmic Voids

    December 15, 2025Release ID: 2025-201 Missions: Roman

    The resulting “big data” will help illuminate the nature of dark energy.

    A scattering of white points, each representing a galaxy. Fuzzy circles colored orange, yellow-green, and blue show voids of various sizes where there are few galaxies.

  11. NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World 

    December 11, 2025Release ID: 2025-140 Missions: Webb

    Observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b show the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system.

    Illustration of a planet orbiting a star, with the words “Artist’s Concept” in the lower right corner.

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

    December 09, 2025Release ID: 2025-137 Missions: Webb

    The telescope captured near-infrared light from one of the earliest stars seen to explode in the history of the universe.

    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.

  13. NASA's Roman Could Bring New Waves of Information on Galaxy’s Stars

    November 20, 2025Release ID: 2025-204 Missions: Roman

    It’s clear as a bell: Roman can enlighten us on the stars located in the Milky Way’s galactic bulge.

    Mosaic titled “Red Giant Echoes with Roman,” which shows 11 artist’s concepts of stars, including the Sun and 10 red giants of various radii against a black background. The illustrations are organized roughly into three rows with the grid size of the largest red giant star, located in the bottom right, the equivalent of two rows. Each star is depicted as a bright and blotchy orb. Starting with the mosaic’s smallest star, the Sun, in the top left corner and shifting to the right before moving to the next row, the illustrations become gradually larger and change from shades of light orange to red-orange. Each star’s radius is placed at the bottom of its grid. From left to right, the four light orange stars in the top row are listed with the following radii: Sun, Radius 1.0; Radius 6.3; Radius 7.0, and Radius 7.8. The second row has three orange stars and reads: Radius 8.8; Radius 9.7; and Radius 10.7. The third has four red-orange stars and reads: Radius 11.8; Radius 15.0; Radius 20.1; and Radius 33.7.

  14. Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit

    November 19, 2025Release ID: 2025-132 Missions: Webb

    Researchers used Webb to refine the orbit of two Wolf-Rayet stars, named for the Egyptian god of chaos, to a lengthy 190 years and confirmed a third star carves their ongoing carbon dust ejections.

    Four dust shells in Wolf-Rayet Apep expand away from three central stars that appear as a single pinpoint of light. The shells are curved, and the interior shell looks like a backward lowercase e shape.

  15. Researchers Submit Record Number of Ambitious Proposals for Webb's Fifth Year of Science

    November 12, 2025Release ID: 2025-405 Missions: STScI

    Distant galaxies, stars and stellar populations are among most popular science categories.

    Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope at the right with its gold, hexagon-shaped primary mirror and multi-layer sunshield. At left is a representation of its 18 primary mirror segments, which takes up about two-thirds of the view. Each segment is outlined in yellow and contains a different Webb image, artist’s concept, or spectrum (graph). The images display dying stars puffing off layers of gas and dust, spiral galaxies, planets, and deep fields of space spattered with fuzzy white galaxies. Three yellow, orange, and red wavy lines appear atop everything else, running left to right. The backdrop shows filaments of red gas and dust, white and blue stars, and distant galaxies, all against the black background of space.

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