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  1. Another First: NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System

    May 14, 2025Release ID: 2025-119 Missions: Webb

    Researchers found water ice throughout a dusty debris disk circling the Sun-like star HD 181327.

    An illustration of Sun-like star HD 181327 and its surrounding debris disk.

  2. Webb's Titan Forecast: Partly Cloudy With Occasional Methane Showers

    May 14, 2025Release ID: 2025-122 Missions: Webb

    Astronomers see evidence of clouds bubbling up over Titan’s northern hemisphere.

    A six-panel graphic with two rows and three columns, showing infrared images of Saturn’s moon Titan.

  3. NASA's Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter's Aurora

    May 12, 2025Release ID: 2025-108 Missions: Webb

    Webb sees the aurora flickering, fluctuating, and undulating at Jupiter’s north pole.

    Three panels show the top of a planet in shades of orange. A bright ribbon wraps around the planet's pole. Inside the circle formed by the ribbon is a more mottled area. Below the ribbon, the planet is much darker.

  4. NASA's Hubble Pinpoints Roaming Massive Black Hole

    May 08, 2025Release ID: 2025-015 Missions: Hubble

    Wandering black hole ate a star that got in its way.

    Six-panel illustration marked "Artist's Concept." The upper left panel shows the silhouette of supermassive black that is adrift inside a galaxy. The middle upper panel shows a yellow star drifting near the black hole. The three following panels show the star being shredded in bright white concentric streamers followed by a white explosion. the bottom right panel is an external view of the galaxy showing a bright white star-like object that is the site if the explosion as viewed in X-rays and visible light.

  5. New Visualization From NASA's Webb Telescope Explores Cosmic Cliffs

    May 07, 2025Release ID: 2025-123 Missions: Webb

    Iconic Webb image transforms into a 3D landscape of gas, dust, and stars.

    The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line forming peaks and valleys in the top third. At the bottom is a brown cloudscape forming a nebula. At the top is a comparatively clear upper portion in blue. Speckled across both portions are innumerable stars of many sizes.

  6. NASA's Webb Lifts Veil on Common but Mysterious Type of Exoplanet

    May 05, 2025Release ID: 2025-113 Missions: Webb

    Scientists determine atmospheric makeup of small, hot, gassy sub-Neptune.

    Illustration showing a large fuzzy blue planet in the foreground, and an orange-yellow star in the background. The side of the planet facing the star is lit, and the side facing away is dark. The boundary between the lit and dark sides is fuzzy. The atmosphere is almost homogeneous in color and texture, with extremely subtle variations and no sign of a surface. The star is slightly more orange than the Sun. The black background of space is scattered with white points of light.

  7. Eye on Infinity: NASA Celebrates Hubble's 35th Year in Orbit

    April 23, 2025Release ID: 2025-013 Missions: Hubble

    Legendary space telescope redefined the universe.

    Composite shows four Hubble images in quarters. At top left is a crisp view of Mars in shades of orange, blues, and browns. At top right is planetary nebula NGC 2899, which is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its central torus appearing semi-transparent and blue and green, and its top and bottom edges in orange. At bottom left is a tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a triangle takes up the center. At bottom right is barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 with a milky yellow center that forms a bar surrounded by multiple blue star-filled spiral arms that wrap up counterclockwise.

  8. NASA's Hubble Tracks a Roaming Magnetar of Unknown Origin

    April 15, 2025Release ID: 2025-010 Missions: Hubble

    Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy.

    An artist’s impression of a magnetar, which is a special type of neutron star with an incredibly strong magnetic field. The neutron star at the center of the image is illustrated as a mottled blue-white sphere with a bright edge and streamers looping off it. Concentric blue lines wrap around the neutron star, like a cage, from upper right to lower left to symbolize the intense magnetic field the star possesses. The words "artist's concept" are at bottom right.

  9. With NASA's Webb, Dying Star's Energetic Display Comes Into Full Focus

    April 14, 2025Release ID: 2025-118 Missions: Webb

    Only the James Webb Space Telescope has the ability to fully detail this planetary nebula’s dusty rings with its unique mid-infrared camera.

    What looks like a single large, bright blue star (but is two) is centered, surrounded by the shape of a short cylinder at an angle in a mix of orange and blue.

  10. NASA Webb's Autopsy of Planet Swallowed by Star Yields Surprise

    April 10, 2025Release ID: 2025-117 Missions: Webb

    Lingering brightness provides evidence for how planet met its demise.

    An illustration of a star after it has swallowed its own planet. The star look like an orange globe with flares coming out of various sides. A dark orange horizontal ring of material circles the host star. There is a very transparent cloud of blue dust spread out from the star.

  11. NASA Webb Explores Effect of Strong Magnetic Fields on Star Formation

    April 02, 2025Release ID: 2025-115 Missions: Webb

    Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong magnetic fields.

    Processed data collected by the MeerKAT radio telescope shows the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, with a graphic pullout highlighting a much smaller region on the right, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared light observations. The MeerKAT image is colored in blue, cyan, and yellow, with a very bright white-yellow center that indicates the location of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. Painterly bubbles of various sizes, clouds, and vertical brushstroke-like streaks make up the radio image. The Webb inset shows stars and gas clouds in red, with an arching cloud of bright cyan that contains many straight, needle-like features that appear more crystalline than cloudy.

  12. 20-Year Hubble Study of Uranus Yields New Atmospheric Insights

    March 31, 2025Release ID: 2025-011 Missions: Hubble

    Uranus findings can aid the study of exoplanets.

    Graphic titled “Hubble Space Telescope – Observations of Uranus,” with 16 images of Uranus, arranged in a 4 by 4 grid showing changes in appearance of Uranus as observed by Hubble between 2002 and 2022.

  13. NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025

    March 31, 2025Release ID: 2025-012 Missions: STScI, Hubble

    The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA Astrophysics, using theory, observations, simulations, experimentation, or instrument development.

    The class of 2025 NHFP Fellows are shown in this photo montage (left to right, top to bottom): The Einstein Fellows (seen in the blue hexagons) are: Shi-Fan Chen, Nicolas Garavito Camargo, Jason Hinkle, Itai Linial, Kenzie Nimmo, Massimo Pascale, Elia Pizzati, Jillian Rastinejad and Aaron Tohuvavohu. The Hubble Fellows (seen in the red hexagons) are: Aliza Beverage, Anna de Graaff, Karia Dilbert, Emily Griffith, Viraj Karambelkar, Lindsey Kwok, Abigail Lee, Aaron Pearlman, Dominick Rowan, Nicholas Rui, Nadine Soliman, Bingjie Wang. The Sagan Fellows (seen in green hexagons) are: Kyle Franson, Caprice Phillips, and Keming Zhang.

  14. STScI Astronomer Carol Christian Elected AAAS Fellow

    March 27, 2025Release ID: 2025-402 Missions: STScI, Hubble

    Dr. Christian is being honored by the AAAS for exceptional leadership in bringing astronomy and astronomy images to the broader range of the public, notably the seeing impaired.

    Woman with blue sky and puffy white clouds in the background. She has short blonde wind-swept hair. She is wearing dark sunglasses and a green tee-shirt with a V-shaped neckline and short sleeves.

  15. NASA's Webb Sees Galaxy Mysteriously Clearing Fog of Early Universe

    March 26, 2025Release ID: 2025-116 Missions: Webb

    Unexpected, bright hydrogen emission caught astronomers by surprise.

    A two panel image. At left, hundreds of tiny galaxies are scattered across the black background of space. A small portion of the sky near the bottom is outlined with a white box. Lines extend from the corners of the box to the right panel. At right, a small red dot at the middle is highlighted with white lines and labeled redshift z = 13. At upper left, a face-on spiral galaxy is labeled z = 0.63. At lower right, an edge-on spiral galaxy is labeled z = 0.70. A handful of other small background galaxies are seen against the black background of space. At lower right, the panel is labeled JADES-GS-z-13-1.

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