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NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly

April 15, 2026

Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our Sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in…

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NASA's Webb Redefines Dividing Line Between Planets, Stars

April 15, 2026

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and…

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Rendering of the orange and black Nova-D lunar lander between two small lunar rovers on the dark gray surface of the Moon.

March 28, 2026

NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston, $180.4 million to deliver NASA-funded science and technology to the lunar…

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stands fully assembled, following the integration of its two major segments, in the clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The mission is slated to launch by May 2027, but the team is on track for launch as early as fall 2026.

March 27, 2026

Media are invited Tuesday, April 21, to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a look…

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An aircraft resting on a section of runway as seen from the side. The X-59 has a long, thin nose that accounts for nearly a third of its length, along with sleek wings and an engine mounted above its body, just below its tail. The early morning sky is dark in the background with the sunrise just starting to emerge.

March 17, 2026

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for…

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NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova

February 24, 2026

Forty million years ago, a star in a nearby galaxy exploded, spewing material across space and generating a…

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NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

January 28, 2026

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries…

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$A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. At center-left, a larger star is circled. It has prominent diffraction spikes and an arc of white at right.$

January 22, 2026

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain…

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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.

January 7, 2026

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy…

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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.

January 6, 2026

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of…

NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly

NASA’s Webb Redefines Dividing Line Between Planets, Stars

NASA Selects Intuitive Machines to Deliver Artemis Science, Tech to Moon

NASA to Unveil Complete Roman Telescope, Host Media Briefing

NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights

NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova

NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals

NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope