STScI: Hubble Sees Boulders Escaping from Asteroid Dimorphos

STScI: Hubble Sees Boulders Escaping from Asteroid Dimorphos

The popular 1954 rock song "Shake, Rattle and Roll," could be the theme music for the Hubble Space Telescope's latest ...
STScI: Webb Celebrates First Year of Science With Close-up on Birth of Sun-like Stars

STScI: Webb Celebrates First Year of Science With Close-up on Birth of Sun-like Stars

From our cosmic backyard in the solar system to distant galaxies near the dawn of time, NASA’s James Webb Space ...
STScI: Saturn’s Rings Shine in Webb’s Observations of Ringed Planet

STScI: Saturn’s Rings Shine in Webb’s Observations of Ringed Planet

Saturn itself appears extremely dark at this infrared wavelength observed by the telescope, as methane gas absorbs almost all of ...
STScI: Webb Makes First Detection of Crucial Carbon Molecule

STScI: Webb Makes First Detection of Crucial Carbon Molecule

A team of international scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space ...
Thousands of bright points of light on a black background fill the field of view. They appear somewhat more concentrated near the center of the image. They have a variety of colors, with the most prominent stars appearing blue or yellow-orange. The brighter stars also display four diffraction spikes.

STScI: NASA’s Hubble Hunts for Intermediate-Sized Black Hole Close to Home

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet ...
STScI: Webb Looks for Fomalhaut's Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

STScI: Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order ...
STScI: Webb Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details in Cassiopeia A

STScI: Webb Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details in Cassiopeia A

The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains the star leaves behind can be even more ...
STScI: Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars

STScI: Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars

There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar ...
STScI: NASA's Webb Measures the Temperature of a Rocky Exoplanet

STScI: NASA’s Webb Measures the Temperature of a Rocky Exoplanet

An international team of researchers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet ...
Universe Of Learning Education

Universe Of Learning Education

NASA's team has released distinctive and inspiring informal learning activities appropriate for diverse audiences. Examples include taking and developing telescope ...
Our Mysterious Universe Still Evades Cosmological Understanding

Our Mysterious Universe Still Evades Cosmological Understanding

Science can uncover new knowledge, but it can also reveal what we don’t understand. New research is shedding light on ...
STScI: Didymos-Dimorphos System After DART Impact

STScI: Didymos-Dimorphos System After DART Impact

Like a sports photographer at an auto-racing event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos ...