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  1. NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes

    July 13, 2026Release ID: 2026-017 Missions: Hubble

    Call it the case of the missing black holes.

    A Hubble image of globular star cluster Omega Centauri, which looks like a dense field of stars. Some stars appear a bit larger and brighter than others; most appear blue, orange, or yellow. The colors appear uniformly distributed, like grains of sand. Stars toward the cluster’s center are packed closer together, creating a more luminous area at the globular cluster’s core. A small red square frame is superimposed on the cluster near the image’s center. It connects to a square pullout in the top-right corner, which shows the outlined area in greater detail. Among the blue- and orange-colored stars is small blue-white dot highlighted by a small red circle.

  2. Hubble Details Early Galaxy Transforming Neighborhood

    June 23, 2026Release ID: 2026-014 Missions: Hubble

    Researchers show that a galaxy’s young, tightly packed stars converted nearby gas from opaque to clear only 1.4 billion years after the big bang.

    Thousands of galaxies appear across the black background of space. The galaxies range in size, from big blobs and larger face-on spirals to short lines and tiny dots. The galaxies appear in a variety of colors, including orange, white, pink, and blue. One prominent foreground star appears toward the lower right with several diffraction spikes. A white square highlights one tiny pinpoint of blue light in the top third, which is blown up in a box above it and labeled MXDFz4.4. The galaxy has a light blue core with some yellow and red blotches around its edges.

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

    June 16, 2026Release ID: 2026-123 Missions: Webb, Hubble

    New research shows that Terzan 5 contains four separate generations of stars, confirming it as the prototype of a “bulge fossil fragment.”

    A dramatically crowded starfield that looks like a just-shaken snow globe. The black background of space, which is clearer at the edges, is covered by thousands of tiny white, orange, and blue points of light, which are stars. The stars are most concentrated in the center, forming a roughly circular orb, and sparser at the edges of the image. Several larger orange stars, particularly those largest near the edges of the frame, have prominent diffraction spikes.

  4. Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center

    May 11, 2026Release ID: 2026-201 Missions: Roman, Hubble

    This large-scale program provides a springboard to help interpret future Roman data.

    An observation (labeled “VISTA V V V Survey, Near-infrared) of the Milky Way’s center pointing toward its supermassive black hole, which is labeled Sagittarius A* (pronounced “A star”). At 7 o’clock from center is a small region, outlined with 5 fields of view from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope that are stacked together in a horizontal rectangle. This region is about a third of the image in length and a fifth of the image in width. Within that same region are diagonal lines that alternate between orange and blue. A legend at the bottom left shows two Hubble instruments. One of them, marked with an orange diamond, is labeled “W F C 3 / U V I S.” The other, marked with a blue diamond, is labeled “A C S / W F C.” The background is a field of stars, gas, and dust that appear grey, except the center third that runs from the left to the right of the frame, which is composed of brown filaments of dust and gas. The tiny region surrounding Sagittarius A star appears orange.

  5. NASA's Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula

    April 20, 2026Release ID: 2026-013 Missions: Hubble

    Actively forming stars are threaded throughout thick dust in this star-forming region.

    A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout.

  6. NASA's Hubble Detects First-Ever Spin Reversal of Tiny Comet

    March 26, 2026Release ID: 2026-012 Missions: Hubble

    Outgassing jets slowed the comet’s spin and restarted it in the opposite direction

    Illustration, close up of rocky, potato-shaped body of a comet with detailed, cratered surface at the bottom right. A glowing ray emanates from the rocky surface like sunlight through clouds. It extends from the comet’s surface across the image to the left. This represents water ice being vaporized by the heat of the Sun. There are small bright dots within the ray, representing fragments of the comet. The words Artist's Concept appear at the bottom left.

  7. NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date

    March 25, 2026Release ID: 2026-117 Missions: Webb, Hubble

    Infrared and visible observations show layers and storms in the ringed planet’s atmosphere

    Side-by-side comparison of Saturn observed at different wavelengths and times show how differently it appears in infrared, on the left, versus visible light, on the right. Left image is labeled Saturn, Webb Infrared Light, November 29, 2024. Right image is labeled Saturn, Hubble Visible Light, August 22, 2024. In infrared, Saturn has horizontal bands, with bands at the north and south poles appearing darker orange and lightening to tan as they approach the equator. The north and south poles glow a greenish-grey. The rings appear in an icy neon white. White dots, representing several of Saturn’s moons, are labeled Janus, Dione, and Enceladus. In visible, Saturn’s horizontal bands appear pale yellow, with some bands towards the north and south pole having a light blue hue. The rings appear bright white, glowing slightly less than Webb’s infrared image. White dots, representing several of Saturn’s moons, are labeled Janus, Mimas, and Epimetheus.

  8. NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026

    March 25, 2026Release ID: 2026-011 Missions: Hubble, STScI

    Fellows will work to answer three broad questions about the universe

    Photo montage of the 2026 class of the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program. At top center is a small logo with astronomical images that reads: NHFP. Title, centered below logo, reads: 2026 NHFP Fellows. Beneath, three categories of fellows are listed in groups, left to right. Heading for first is: How Does the Universe Work? Einstein Fellows. Tightly cropped portraits of 10 researchers in hexagons appear below. Heading for second: How Did We Get Here? Hubble Fellows. Portraits of 8 researchers in hexagons appear below. Heading for third group: Are We Alone? Sagan Fellows. Portraits of 6 researchers appear below. At bottom center is the label: NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.

  9. NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion

    March 23, 2026Release ID: 2026-009 Missions: Hubble

    Movement in the Crab Nebula is clearly detectable between Hubble images

    Colorful nebula in space with a white haze throughout that is more concentrated in the center with a rippling effect. Colorful gas filaments appear to splash outward from the nebula center, colored yellow, magenta, and blue. A black border with right angles at the corners of the images show where the telescope’s field of view stops.

  10. NASA’s Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up

    March 18, 2026Release ID: 2026-010 Missions: Hubble

    Researchers’ long-sought experiment happened serendipitously.

    A time sequence of three panels side by side. From left to right, the panels are labeled November 8, 2025; November 9, 2025; and November 10, 2025. This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the fragmenting comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or K1 for short, was taken over the course of three consecutive days. The sequence shows the progressive disintegration of the comet over this brief period. Each panel features several bright, fuzzy, blue, streaking lights in a diagonal line from the upper left to the lower right of a black background. In the first panel, four comet-like objects appear. The largest is the second from the upper left. In the second panel, the largest object has broken into two pieces. In the third panel, the pieces appear to be moving away from each other along the invisible diagonal line.

  11. NASA’s Hubble Identifies One of Darkest Known Galaxies

    February 18, 2026Release ID: 2026-007 Missions: Hubble

    The elusive object dubbed CDG-2 may be composed of 99% dark matter.

    Two images side by side. At left, a field of space with a dozen white foreground stars and small, yellow background galaxies. An area at center is outlined with a dashed red circle surrounded by a white box. Lines extend from the box to a pullout at right containing faint, grainy white light surrounded by a red circle labeled “Candidate dark galaxy – diffuse emission.” Four white dots are circled in blue and labeled globular clusters.

  12. NASA's Hubble Captures Light Show Around Rapidly Dying Star

    February 10, 2026Release ID: 2026-008 Missions: Hubble

    Interplay of shadow, light, and dust hints at processes shaping enigmatic nebula

    In the image center, an opaque oval cloud of gray gas aligned from 1 o’clock to 7 o’clock hides a star. Two strong beams of light from the star emerge from large holes in both sides of the cloud, forming narrow cones extending toward 10 o’clock and 4 o’clock. The central cloud is surrounded by concentric, wispy shells of gas illuminated by the star’s light. The shells reflect extra light where they’re hit by the twin beams. A crowd of smaller stars with cross-shaped spikes over them surrounds the nebula on a black background.

  13. AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive

    January 27, 2026Release ID: 2026-005 Missions: Hubble

    New findings include galaxy mergers and "jellyfish" galaxies.

    Six Hubble images of distorted galaxies are organized in a two-row mosaic.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

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