Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

NASA’s Chandra Reveals ‘Red, White, Blue’ Universe for US 250th

In celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, NASA has unveiled four cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray…

NASA Connects Little Red Dots with Chandra, Webb

A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that…

NASA’s Pandora Satellite, CubeSats to Explore Exoplanets, Beyond

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is launching to study the atmospheres of exoplanets and their stars.

NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles

For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas from a…

NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a…

NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used data…

Astronomers Map Stellar ‘Polka Dots’ Using NASA’s TESS, Kepler

Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of…