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This infrared image from SPHEREx features a selection of colors emitted primarily by stars (blue, green, and white), hot hydrogen gas (blue), and cosmic dust (red). Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

SPHEREx Creates Infrared Map of Entire Sky

Dec 23, 2025 by News Staff

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope has completed its first...

This Euclid image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 646 and the smaller, faint and round galaxy NGC 646b. Image credit: ESA / Euclid /Euclid Consortium / NASA / M. Schirmer, MPIA / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

Euclid Focuses on Visual Pair of Galaxies

Dec 23, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

This new image from ESA’s Euclid space telescope shows two large galaxies: NGC 646 and NGC 646b. They look like neighbors, but they’re actually about...

This Hubble image shows a protoplanetary disk around IRAS 23077+6707. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / K. Monsch, CfA / J. DePasquale, STScI.

Astronomers Spot Largest Protoplanetary Disk Ever Observed around Young Star

Dec 23, 2025 by News Staff

The protoplanetary disk around IRAS 23077+6707, a young star located roughly 1,000 light-years away, is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, with wisps...

This image from Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument shows the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Image credit: NRL / NASA / JHUAPL / Guillermo Stenborg, JHUAPL.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Captures 3I/ATLAS

Dec 22, 2025 by News Staff

Using the WISPR (Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, scientists observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS...

This Hubble image shows the galaxy pair Arp 4. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey / DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA.

Hubble Space Telescope Snaps Close-Up of Arp 4

Dec 22, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the best ever views of Arp 4, a visual pair of galaxies in the constellation of Cetus. This...

This Hubble image shows the debris ring and dust clouds cs1 and cs2 around Fomalhaut. Image credit: NASA / ESA / P. Kalas, UC Berkeley / J. DePasquale, STScI.

Hubble Captures Collision of Two Planetesimals around Fomalhaut

Dec 19, 2025 by News Staff

Fomalhaut — the 18th brightest star visible in night sky — is orbited by a compact source, Fomalhaut b, which has previously been interpreted...

This composite image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on November 6, 2025 by the UVS instrument on board NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft from a distance of around 164 million km (103 million miles). Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI.

Europa Clipper Captures Unique View of 3I/ATLAS

Dec 18, 2025 by News Staff

Scientists using the Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) instrument aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed...

This composite image features X-ray and optical data of the LFBOT event AT 2024wpp. Image credit: NASA / CXC / UC Berkeley / Nayana et al. / Legacy Survey / DECaLS / BASS / MzLS / SAO / P. Edmonds / N. Wolk.

Record-Breaking Cosmic Burst Caused by Stellar-Mass Black Hole Shredding Its Companion

Dec 16, 2025 by News Staff

Using data gathered by a suite of space- and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered AT 2024wpp, the most luminous fast blue optical transient...

This artist’s concept shows what PSR J2322-2650b may look like. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford, STScI.

Webb Detects Exotic Helium-and-Carbon-Rich Atmosphere around Pulsar-Orbiting Exoplanet

Dec 16, 2025 by News Staff

PSR J2322-2650b, an enigmatic Jupiter-mass exoplanet orbiting the millisecond pulsar PSR J2322-2650, appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated...

A primordial supermassive star in the early Universe. Image credit: Gemini AI.

Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Supermassive Stars in Early Universe

Dec 15, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered chemical fingerprints of primordial stars weighing between 1,000 and 10,000...

This Hubble image shows NGC 4388, a spiral galaxy some 59 million light-years in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / S. Veilleux / J. Wang / J. Greene.

Hubble Space Telescope Revisits NGC 4388

Dec 15, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding new image of the highly inclined spiral galaxy NGC 4388. This Hubble image shows NGC 4388,...

This XMM-Newton image shows an X-ray view of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. At the center of the image, a bright red spot stands out against a dark background, like a fiery beacon. Starting from this core, faint gradients of purple and blue spread outward, creating a slightly rotated rectangular frame, divided by a thin horizontal line, the detector gap. The red color shows low-energy X-rays, blue marks empty space with very few X-rays. Image credit: ESA / XMM-Newton / C. Lisse / S. Cabot / XMM ISO Team.

XMM-Newton Offers Incredible X-ray View of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Dec 12, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory have captured an X-ray image of 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object to be detected passing...

3I/ATLAS streaks across stars and galaxies in this image captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea in Hawai’i, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by NSF and operated by NSF’s NOIRLab. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / B. Bolin / J. Miller & M. Rodriguez, International Gemini Observatory & NSF’s NOIRLab / T.A. Rector, University of Alaska Anchorage & NSF’s NOIRLab / M. Zamani, NSF’s NOIRLab.

Gemini North Telescope Captures New Images of 3I/ATLAS

Dec 12, 2025 by News Staff

On November 26, 2025, astronomers used the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini North telescope at Maunakea in Hawai’i to obtain images...

This artist’s concept shows what TOI-561b and its star could look like. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford, STScI.

Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere on Ultrahot Super-Earth TOI-561b

Dec 11, 2025 by News Staff

The new observations with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope suggest that TOI-561b is surrounded by a thick blanket of gases above a global magma...

Uranus could be an ice giant (left) or a rock giant (right) depending on the model assumptions. Image credit: Keck Institute for Space Studies / Chuck Carter.

New Research Challenges Classification of Uranus and Neptune as Ice Giants

Dec 11, 2025 by News Staff

The composition of Uranus and Neptune might be less icy than previously thought, according to a new study by University of Zürich scientists. Uranus could...

Webb identified the source of a super bright flash of light known as a gamma-ray burst: a supernova that exploded when the Universe was only 730 million years old. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / A. Levan, IMAPP / A. Pagan, STScI.

Webb Detects Earliest-Known Supernova Explosion

Dec 10, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a supernova explosion accompanying the gamma-ray burst event GRB 250314A...

Characterization of a presolar spinel-hibonite grain from the asteroid Bennu. Image credit: Nguyen et al., doi: 10.1038/s41550-025-02688-3.

Scientists Find Presolar Stardust in Samples from Asteroid Bennu

Dec 10, 2025 by News Staff

Researchers have detected an unexpectedly high abundance of presolar grains — dust from stellar explosions predating our Solar System — in...

An artist’s impression of the flaring, windy supermassive black hole in NGC 3783. Image credit: ESA / ATG Europe.

Astronomers Spot Extraordinary Blast from Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 3783

Dec 9, 2025 by News Staff

Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a JAXA-led mission with ESA and NASA participation, astronomer have observed...

A figure illustrating the rotation of neutral hydrogen (right) in galaxies residing in an extended filament (middle), where the galaxies exhibit a coherent bulk rotational motion tracing the large-scale cosmic web (left). Image credit: Lyla Jung.

Astronomers Discover 50-Million-Light-Year-Long Spinning Cosmic Web Filament

Dec 8, 2025 by News Staff

The newly-discovered galaxy filament spans at least 50 million light-years and resides 140 million light-years away. The galaxies are orbiting around the...