Press Releases & Feature Stories Archive - Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory

NASA's Webb to Explore a Neighboring, Dusty Planetary System

07.21.2021

Researchers will take stock of the dust in the debris disk surrounding the nearby star Beta Pictoris.

Hubble Returns to Full Science Observations and Releases New Images

07.19.2021

NASA???s Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, exploring the universe near and far.

Hubble Reveals a 'Rediscovered' Star Cluster

07.16.2021

This image shows the globular cluster NGC 6380, which lies around 35,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio (the Scorpion).

James Webb Space Telescope Testing Progress Continues

07.15.2021

Engineers have made considerable progress in checking off NASA???s James Webb Space Telescope???s final series of tests.

NASA's TESS Discovers Stellar Siblings Host 'Teenage' Exoplanets

07.12.2021

Thanks to data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting a pair of related young stars called TOI 2076 and TOI 1807.

Hubble Glimpses a Galactic Duo

07.09.2021

Two enormous galaxies capture your attention in this spectacular image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Hubble Sees a Cluster of Red, White, and Blue

07.02.2021

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts the open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 light-years away inside the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Hubble Images a Dazzling Dynamic Duo

06.25.2021

A cataclysmic cosmic collision takes center stage in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA's Webb Will Use Quasars to Unlock the Secrets of the Early Universe

06.23.2021

Shortly after its launch later this year, a team of scientists will train NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on six of the most distant and luminous quasars. They will study the properties of these quasars and their host galaxies, and how they are interconnected during the first stages of galaxy evolution in the very early universe.

Hubble Peers at a Galaxy with a Hidden Secret

06.18.2021

This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3254, observed using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Mystery of Galaxy's Missing Dark Matter Deepens

06.17.2021

When astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered an oddball galaxy that looked like it didn't have much dark matter, some thought the finding was hard to believe and looked for a simpler explanation.

Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

06.16.2021

NASA is working to resolve an issue with the payload computer on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Sees a Spiral in Good Company

06.11.2021

This image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, features the spiral galaxy NGC 4680.

Citizen Scientists Discover Two Gaseous Planets around a Bright Sun-like Star

06.10.2021

At night, seven-year-old Miguel likes talking to his father Cesar Rubio about planets and stars. "I try to nurture that," says Rubio, a machinist in Pomona, California, who makes parts for mining and power generation equipment.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision 'Eyes'

06.09.2021

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently approved all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. These devices will convert starlight into electrical signals, which will then be decoded into 300-megapixel images of large patches of the sky.

Hubble Images a Galaxy in Dazzling Detail

06.04.2021

This image features the spiral galaxy NGC 691, imaged in fantastic detail using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Hubble Captures a Captivating Spiral

05.28.2021

This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5037, in the constellation of Virgo.

Hubble Views Lopsided Galaxy NGC 2276

05.27.2021

The magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 2276 looks a bit lopsided in this Hubble Space Telescope snapshot.

NASA's Roman Mission to Probe Cosmic Secrets Using Exploding Stars

05.26.2021

NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations, astronomers aim to shine a light on several cosmic mysteries, providing a window onto the universe???s distant past and hazy present.

Hubble Gazes at a Galactic Menagerie

05.21.2021

This packed image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases the galaxy cluster ACO S 295, as well as a jostling crowd of background galaxies and foreground stars.

Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies' Spiral Arms

05.20.2021

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief, powerful radio blasts to the spiral arms of five distant galaxies.

NASA's Webb to Study How Massive Stars' Blasts of Radiation Influence Their Environments

05.19.2021

An international team using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in October, will study a portion of the radiated cloud called the Orion Bar to learn more about the influence massive stars have on their environments, and even on the formation of our own solar system.